I love Saturdays.

Usually our Saturdays are filled with comfy clothes, comfort food and relaxation. Most of the time after the kids are gone to bed, we get some snacks and watch the hockey game. If that is not an option we will watch a movie and of course eat some snacks, snacks are just always a must. Most times I do not check my phone that often because it gets left in my room or on the kitchen counter.

Sometimes we bake, go for drives or breakfast. I absolutely love going for breakfast on Saturdays (its on my top ten 5 things I love the most) .

This Saturday.

The night before I had made steak strips in my Instant Pot and, potato wedges in the oven (my play on steak and fries). Apparently L loves potato wedges. He power ate all of his wedges and then continued to shovel the beef right after.

Fast forward 6 hours into his peaceful slumber, he wakes to pee and that was a short trip out of bed and back. A little while later there was vomit and vomit and MORE vomit, needless to say, it was a long sleepless night (thankfully E sleep through the night which is a rare occurrence.

 3 WEEKS LATER…

After I started this post, three weeks ago, the plague broke into my house and just destroyed the place.

Let me just be super fuckin’ real right now. Motherhood GETS you, sucks you in and consumes you. In those times in your journey through motherhood (because lets be honest that is what this is, a journey) you just do not have the urge to do anything extra then the mandatory things you are obligated to do like, keep your children alive.

L’s overnight throw up was just the tip of the roaster coaster to an almost 2 week snotty, cough-y, chicken noodle, tissue and high temp filled excellent time. We wiped this house out of toilet paper, can you FEEL my pain? Sure I recovered but, my house needed some serious TLC after this mom was smothered with the flu dealing with two snotty toddlers (you can imagine).

When these things happen in my life, I just loose all motivation for all things extra…

Extra things being:

• Working out
• Eating on my A game
• Showering because like once the kids were in bed, I needed to sleep myself! (naps before bed to get things done, naps when the kids were napping) SlEeP dEpRiVaTiOn . CoM
• Drinking all my water
• General self care just goes down the toilet with my tissues

Yesterday, I started a new program and I think it is exactly what I needed! I feel amazing, more energy, generally just happier because everything is coming back to normal as normal can be in our mess.

Side note.. 

I was feeling like I had totally failed as a blogger but everyone starts somewhere. It actually took a message from a dear friend to get me back on here.

“Sorry, I haven’t read your blog lately. I’ve been so busy with school and work….”

“It’s because you haven’t got a notification because I haven’t published anything in that long”

“WHY? You just started! …It’s your time. Do it.”

This made me so warm and grateful to have the supporters in my life that I do. And most times, it just takes that one thing to get you back in your big girl panties and get shit started.. or continued! This journey is one of the best I could have ever chose for myself and if I went back in time, I would do everything the same way just so I would have the family I have been blessed with. I could not be more excited to continue on this path and just make myself more accountable! There might be some chicken wings on the menu tomorrow, stay tuned and stay positive!