All things that are good for you in life are harder. Even Mamas time to ESCAPES is hard to make lol…
Life happens and Mama Days are not the same, we are bound fall short in our goals every now and again, the question is how far off the grid do we fall when we do slip? And how do we find strength to start the climb again. Today I share four life aspects that I find hard to maintain, I know you will relate to at least one and I hope we teach each other a thing or two on what shakes us out of the rut.
HEALTHY LIFESTYLE
As I was chopping celery to make Sama’s snack on Sunday I took a bite and thought to myself ; I really don’t like celery sticks without hummus, but Sama enjoys it here you go nana” she murdered it!” My husband hates cherry tomatoes but would offer them to Sama anytime of the day until she feeds him back hahaha… Mind you, when we were still pregnant we promised to love all our veggies for the baby’s sake lol… we do, just not those two I guess. “This year I will run at least 3 times a week“ 1 month later “well, at least I walk once a week” lol.. yeahh right Mama.
TRY THIS – I started putting a picture of my body goals as my screen saver, I also deliberately bought lots of veggies so that I’m forced to make them before they go off. How do you shake this one off?
FINANCES
“I HAD to” does that sound familiar? Last year I committed on a very powerful podcast I was listening to that I will recycle my clothes as much as possible, and I did very well actually until I started getting more social invitations from my @blaqmermaid public speaking and more friends had special celebrations “I HAD to”lol
Then there’s emotional buying which is so hard to admit for us moms, how many times have you bought your child a toy or clothing items that they can live without but you knowingly buy it anyway haha… Sama got a lot of toys from Christmas but last week they had camping theme day at school and she was going on about camping and even made a small shelter from cushions under the staircase to make a camp tent. Over the weekend I got the Princess tent.
This one is quite broad, did I mentioned restaurant visits, take-away dinners, data bundles, online sales, gifts…. looorrddd!!
TRY THIS – It helps to plan in advance for gifts, take advantage of Pinterest for outfit ideas it helps a great deal in mixing things up and eliminate the need to buy, get uncapped data once and for all, online sales aren’t always that cheap. I’m still working on emotional buying for Sama, any tips?
TIME
This shouldn’t be applicable to us moms, what do you think? I mean half the time is not even under our control and people should understand that we have kids and will be delayed from time to time right?…. wrong….
Our church is a 10 minute drive from our home and starts at 09:00, when it’s just Sama and I attending we get ready at 08:30 we are usually late, when daddy joins us he insists we start getting ready at 08:00 we are never late. But you know what I have figured Mamas, we tend to get ready faster when there’s another adults going with because we don’t want to make them late but if it’s just us we don’t feel rushed and then Mr. Time takes advantage to embarrass us lol..
TRY THIS – Old trick – try to prepare the night before, always imagine the embarrassment when you walk in late with all eyes on you, always try to avoid the title “she’s never on time” by your friends lol… and lastly, I’m also trying to master this one; minus 30 min. from your initial getting ready time and surprise yourself.
RELATIONS
All these are so important and i am guilty of the TIME one. I am always and forever late. I even get my baby at the very last minute at school….bad mother right. Funny thing is on the other things i am very disciplined, bed time is 7 we dont negotiate. Finances and making healthy foods for her. As a result she doesn’t have any vegetables that she doesn’t eat. My baby snacks on carrot and cucumber. She carries a fruit to school and not sweets or chips and i hope i can keep this going forever
Healthy lifestyle has to be my worst. I’m really bad because I skip breakfast because I have no time. My cousin is a dietician and she nags me about this all the time. I don’t evn take a proper lunch break. I get to work and get into it and by the time I have my first meal of the day it’s after 2pm or 3pm. Beginning of the year it’s summer so I try to at least take fruit and or yoghurt that I can just eat eat quickly but in winter I stop because it’s cold. My cous in said I should make smoothies for the week and bottle them. I tried this last year and it worked as my daughter also got to just grab her breakfast smoothie on the go. Then it was the time factor we just got lazy. But lo and behold I’ve ordered a blender! As soon as it arrives wer back to making the breakfast smoothies but Winter will be an issue. As for gym I love classes and sitting in the steam room but I leave the office late so often I end up jus driving with the gym bag in the car and never actually making it to gym. I’m not good with exercising outside and I’m battling this year to restart working out. I really wish I could leave the office on time.
Oh Goodness
Time and healthy lifestyle as my biggest slip ups, sometimes I want to embrace the two as my official flames but really ? No…I wanna get better.
Atleast diet is not a problem in my house because wow my fiancè is such a disciplined human being, we don’t eat starch ever, we are big on veggies and light in sugar so I guess the diet part is not a major. The problem is with me doing something about my belly, gaush my son is gonna be two years now and I can’t keep hiding on the baby fat excuse forever. Something must be done and I’m not helping the situation with my laziness.
I’m always late, everywhere everytime, my friend’s know, I’m the last to walk in the office, I’m always fighting with my man about time, it’s crazy .I need help.
This was a good read Londy, I guess one has to work at getting better everyday with no giving up.
Ah Rato, giving up is not an option, it cant be. These are not easy at all to maintain, trying to be consistent feel suicidal at times lol.. but we have to try Mama, zama kakhulu!! thank you for stopping by 🙂
Great read love. I’m definitely focusing on my managing my personal finances this year. Spending less and making more darling!
Intentional Mama!! I love it!