Mental health day

Yesterday I came across these words and they just spoke to me! they perfectly expressed how if feel:

I want to start saying yes to me!!!!

I want to eat, move, speak and act like i really love myself.

Because taking care of my children means taking care of myself. 

when I take time to really replenish, it allows me to serve my family from the best of me and not from what is left of me.

Sacrifice is an essential part of Motherhood and is is a mighty beautiful thing but do not give more than you have.

This is not selfish

This is necessary

This year i promise to live like i love myself

so I think this is it, not a word more a motto: love yourself!!!

I have been struggling with this for quite a bit. taking time for what feeds my soul! time to fix me a decent lunch too! time to take care of my body, time to reflect, write, draw, sew.....

I need those creative vessels back in my life to be a better version of myself!

It just happened that we had planned a day "off" for me for today a while back, when i ran across those words

ricky and the kids have been gone since this morning. 

a little blogging

a little housework

but mostly a looooong shower( geeez i even removed some winterfurr and polished my nails, say what!!!)

made me a yummy lunch

sorted art supply

took my vitamins

drank water

watched a show on netflix

drank my coffee uninterrupted  and with two hands

opened a box of chocolates just because and just for me

and ..... gasp..... pulled the sewing machine out!

I think we all need a break every once in a while!

let's call it a mental health day

2015

Hi, long time no see,
eventhough i have not been active here, life has been extremly active to say the least!
2014 is done. It has been a good one but also one of the more challenging ones. I am sad that i did not make more time to really write down our every day happenings cause they come and go and before you know it is a new year and you only remember tiny snippets of it! not writing and feeling discontent in 2014 are definatley woven into eachother.
Instagram is a wonderful thing to catch some of those daily snippets but in the end I learned over the past year that I need a place to write again. So i decided to make 2015 count!
i have been thinking about my word for 2015 and i can't quite settle on one yet ! the general feeling of discontentment last year came from feelings like not spending enough quality time as a couple as a family and as an individual human being ,rushing through the day like a chased rabbit, too little down time and the general feeling of being exhausted! granted you cannot really avoid the last one once you have three littles but i want this feeling to change into a happy exhaustion instead of a grumpy one.also i think my feelings are triggered by the fact that i have not been home in so long( since before Fiona was born). I hope that 2015 is the year! I will try my hardest to make this happen, it will do me so good!
so my thoughts circle around: quality, joy, adventure!
make the things you do really count
happy 2015