SMART Heaven - Chocolate and Laughter

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Right now a dark chocolate chip truffle from See’s Candies sounds heavenly … maybe even two. I am exhausted. It has been a long week. It hasn’t been a bad week, just a tiring one. I don’t understand why they call us stay at home mom’s. I don’t know about you but I feel like I am rarely home. If Keri doesn’t need to be picked up from school, then she needs to be taken to swimming lessons. If it is not the grocery store or Costco I am running to, then it is the library that is calling my name with books that are due. During the mad rush of the holiday season I thought life would slow down after it came and went. Wrong. I think it has slowly been speeding up. And how many times do we say to ourselves, this is an extenuating circumstance, things like this don’t come up all the time? Sure, that particular thing doesn’t happen all the time, but when you add up all the myriad of little things which suddenly pop up you will soon find that every day there is something out of the ordinary occurring. It makes me feel worn out just writing about it.

I did better this week about getting to bed on time … not perfect, but definitely an improvement over last week. Unfortunately I still feel like I need want more sleep. I am hoping I can sleep in tomorrow, especially since I had to get up early this morning because I was in charge of watching an extra munchkin for about 9 hours today. He was a darling and very polite 20 month old little boy, but I am grateful I don’t have two sets of diapers to change on a daily basis. But this weekend still has many opportunities for “abnormal” things to pop up. I have a baby shower to attend (kind of a cool theme, though - for the gift we are supposed to bring our favorite book from childhood) and we have an old friend coming to town … someone we haven’t seen in over half a decade! It should be a blast hanging out, but it still one more thing I have to think about it.

Moving on to a brighter subject. The new habit I started last week, making my kids laugh on a daily basis, went really well. I thoroughly enjoyed the moments where it was just them and me existing. I know the moments didn’t last very long, something else was always soon vying for my attention, but for the nanoseconds in which I was able to focus completely on my children and block everything else out except making them laugh was like getting a taste of what heaven must be like. It was so refreshing to have a mind whose gears just stopped churning, grinding and spinning for the briefest of seconds. This is what peace and pure bliss must feel like.

This week I am still going to work on getting to bed on time and getting the amount of sleep I need. Obviously I am also going to continue indulging in my daily laugh sessions with Keri and Cory. As far as a new habit goes, I think I am going to rededicate myself to drinking at least 48 ounces of water a day. With everything that has been going on, eating healthy has gotten a little forgotten … it has a few cobwebs and dust collecting on it. Not eating junk on two different days during the week is going fine, but I also might change that up so I don’t find too much joy in eating treats on the days that I am allowed to eat them.

So here’s to a water-filled, giggling, fully-rested week!

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