Tick Tock...Gain An Hour On The Clock

t i c k... t o c k

Who could use another hour in the day? You can right? Me too.

I've learned how to gain some time back in my day and wanted to share with you. If you're like me you don't hate laundry you just hate doing it and all the steps associated with it:

1. separating the clothes

2. washing the clothes

3. drying/hanging clothes to dry

4. folding/hanging clothes

5. putting the clothes away

Okay so it's not like you can shy away much from steps 1-4 but what I'm about to share about step 5 could change your life and get your time back. It even had me laughing, literally, as I decided last Sunday that I wasn't going to stress over putting away my laundry any longer. So here's what I did....I skipped the folding I just put them away.

Yep I stuffed the clothes right in the drawers skipping the folding part. For me in my house, majority of the time the clothes end up in the drawers unfolded anyway by the time you pick through them trying to find something to wear so...hey, why waste time folding what will be unfolded in a second. Makes no sense right or no need to waste time folding? So get some time back in your life by leaving alone those things that don't make sense and focusing on those things that do. You'll find that you will have one less thing to stress over.

A Mermazing SHELLabration

"Mommy I'm a mermaid don't get water on me. Mommy I want a sleepover. Mommy I want to go to the city. Mommy I want a party for my birthday, no wait I want to fly on a plane and go on a cruise." These are all the things I've been hearing for the past few months and me being me, I was definitely slow to make them happen. And I don't like to make promises that I can't keep. So I never said yes or no to any of them.

As her birthday was approaching I remembered all her little heart's desire and I tried to incorporate them into giving her a great birthday party. Although a few weeks back she completely switched her sleepover birthday wish on me to a cruise and a plane trip (which I managed to get the plane ride in) but a cruise...???

Once I came up with an idea, location, and theme for the party, the party planning began. It took about two to three weeks of searching various sources like amazon, Walmart, Pinterest, Party City, etc to gather ideas, compare pricing and more. But due to such a short turn around, I had to narrow my search fast and not continue to search for ideas so that I wouldn't overwhelm myself and try to do them all lol. With my sister's help I was able to bring everything together for my little Zermaid.

#ZermaidsInTheCity #ZermaidParty

I Took His Advice

As a woman so much is thrown at you and on you and nothing seems to “let up”, leaving you feeling overworked, underpaid, under appreciated, overwhelmed and the list could go on. But after chatting with my husband about my built up feelings he gave so great advice. He said:

” You know why women tend to feel so pressed and stressed and men don’t? It’s because most men tend to keep some part of their child-like tendencies with them like; playing video games, shooting pool, basketball etc.”

My comeback was:

”Well yeah they do but if women don’t do what they do half the stuff won’t get done. And the world have such high standards placed on women ...feed the chil-ren, clean the house, go to work, get a promotion, make doctors appointments...just straight out be SUPER WOMEN and men...” (feel in your own blank on that one lol.)

After talking with him I felt a little better but after the convo I said you know what (we rarely do this as women) but I’m going to take him up on his advice. I’m going to start getting out of my routine on a regular and just LIVE. Everything and everyone else would be a’ight.

To start Tuesday, I took my daughter to the park and we stayed almost two hours. I told myself I would just embrace the moment and put this dang phone down (was only on it about 10 minutes) and not answer any calls, text, email, social media, media media, or whatever and just let my mind be. I watched her play and enjoy her life care free and I enjoyed the Sun and watching her. Towards the end of our time there (when the other kids begin to leave) I joined in the fun and spinned myself around, took flight on the swing, I even went down a slide.

Oh the priceless joys of being a kid and living free.

Are you stressing? Are you overwhelmed? I encourage you to take the time this weekend and just BE!

BE without your phone for 30 minutes.

BE by yourself for 30 minutes to an hour.

BE thought free of work.

BE thought free of worrying.

BE relaxed. (Whatever that means to you)

....most importantly...

BE still and know that GOD is GOD even He took time to rest and still managed to do the work that needed to be done. After all the work Jesus had done even he had to get away from the disciples and the crowds to be alone and recuperate.

When we are cared for we can care for others.