March 1, 2024 - Saturday


It's so funny to me that we just had a cell teaching on busyness and I was thinking to myself, I never feel busy anymore. My life is so totally chill all the time and everything is great. But now, I've spent the last week feeling totally overwhelmed. (I'm blaming it on the trip.) It's not necessarily busyness, it's more like peopling. I feel like I'm constantly surrounded by people and noise and decision-making situations, but I want...I NEED rest. I need some time to myself! I haven't had the kids do quiet time at all since we got back from Williamsburg, because they all look at it like a punishment and I have started looking at it that way too. Like, they only have to do that if they're being especially annoying, which isn't true. I need to enforce it because we all need time alone to recharge or pursue our individual interests. I need to stop feeling guilty for having them do that. 

Anyway, today was ok. We did school in the morning, but we did not finish. The big kids still needed to read one more chapter of their book and Ruby didn't do her math or her spelling book yet. None of the girls did their science experiment either! But that one is on me. I hate doing science experiments. We cut out early because Ben wanted to go to Daruma for hibachi and I just have to say, wow. Everyone did so well! We had a really awesome chef, who somehow persuaded the kids to try all kinds of new (to them) things, so everyone ate food and we had a great time! Afterwards, we took the kids to Target, which was completely exhausting. So, by the time we got home, I was already completely drained. I'm starting with very little energy for people already, then doing stuff like we did today was just a lot. I ended up cleaning the house for hours, just because I knew nobody would join me in that. 😅 We watched a little bit of Oppenheimer tonight after the kids went to bed. 




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