Friday I raced around, trying to get a lot of things done, and by 4 o’clock in the afternoon when I sat down to catch my breath I realized two things.
I have to slow down and engage my brain.
Hubby came in from his eighth day of skiing, at noon and we sat and ate lunch together. Hubby is very good at calming me down.
I’ve been under this imaginary deadline to get reports written and filed, rooms cleaned and laundry done, when the fact of the matter is…none of it has to be done this very second.
So I stopped. I fixed myself a cup of tea. Grandma always said that there wasn’t anything that a cup of tea couldn’t fix, and perhaps she was right. After all, while sitting there sipping my tea, I was finally able to relax for the first time in a couple of days.
During my tea time, we talked a little about the holidays and he helped me realize that I was being far too hard on myself. Gotta love that man!
So I finished up the paperwork slowly, made dinner, slowly, and then walked the dogs one by one, slowly! Hubby made me a wonderful fire in the hearth, and I’m sitting here enjoying the dogs, and Hubby and the fact that I’m just about done for the night.
“Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas”!
Good for Hubby! And good for you! Isn’t it nice to have someone be your reality check when you seem to need it most?
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I have to slow down too. Hard to do this time of year! Love YOU, Mel
I love the “engage my brain” part of this. My problem is that when I engage my brain completely, nothing that needs doing gets done, only the things I like, like reading, practicing my Czech, knitting, listening to music…actually those are pretty important now that I see i written down. TY MB!