DON'T LOOK AROUND!

Don't Look Around!
This is my endless advice to all of you.
This is the key element to TRULY embracing your day.
So many moms I talk to always ask me, with ten people in my house, how I ever relax on a given day. Especially a holiday, day off from school or weekend when everyone is home, and you want to just enjoy everybody.
No matter what your plan is, or when you decide to not have one,
NOT LOOKING AROUND, will take you places you have never been.
It is the #1 thing you have to do.
100% letting go, to an equal 100% being present, to have 100% enjoyment with your kids.
Say you wake up and shuffle one eye opened to your coffee pot.
If you see any dish "soaking" from last night, that you didnt get washed, still in the sink, that can be a "distraction".
It takes a piece of the coffee goodness away.
That looking forward to an orgasmic twenty minutes with your morning companion, turns to thinking of having to do that pot right after.
Drinking your Maxwell House is now sharing your mind with dishwashing.
Well, on a day you just want to chill with everyone, things work the
same way.
Tasks that you see, that need to be done, because were women, can become a barrier to the fullness of your precious moments.
So......don't look. DO NOT look around.
Im tellin you, it will help so mcuh.
Get the Connect 4 game down and keep your eyes on the shelf.
Shut the closet door without looking at the the floor.
Carry it to a table that is clean.
Play in a room as if there is spotlight on the game and the child
you are playing it with.
DON'T LOOK AROUND!
You can't help your brain from knowing a list of the other things that need to be taken care of, but you CAN help the eyes from REMIDNING your brain every two seconds.
If the phone rings-don't answer...it is a distraction.
Put your cell upstairs if you're in the family room.
Put it downstairs, if you're building a fort in the bedroom.
Distractions...
There will always be other things needing your attention...always.
And contrary to popular belief, they will still be there were you're
done having a good time.
Never, in the seventeen and a half years that I've been a mother,
have my things gotten up and walked out of our house because
it took me too long to get to them.
They arent going anywhere and even when you do get to them, helloooo...they'll need to be done again, in like, five minutes.
Enjoy your day with no regrets.
If you don't give in to the distraction, oh my gosh, it is so much more fun.
Is it always easy? No.
We are multi-taskers and can sometimes feel like were spinning if we sit for too long. But ladies you'll love it!
You put your whole heart into the house, your job, your errands,
You should embrace the best part of your life, and enjoy letting
yourself go...
Fall into a "family day", "afternoon", or "hour" with as much
power as your give a ZUMBA class.
Your kids will see a whole new you.
And when you've made even better memories because of it, you'll
master it in no time.
Go have fun this weekend with your ENTIRE being-
You (and your family) deserve it!
Hugs!




Hugs!