I watched 5 hours of T.V.  plus a movie with my daughter, I made only smoothies and eggs for us all to eat,  I read a magazine, and took a 1/2 hour power nap.

     This does not describe a typical Sunday for me, or any other day for that matter.  I am the person that always has to be busy doing something.  I cook, clean and play with my kids constantly.  I stand from 7 am to 11 pm (really) unless I am in my car, and frankly I am tired of it.  It has been hitting me lately that I have fallen into the busy trap.  Meaning, I don’t give myself any time to just relax and if I even consider it, I feel guilty.  I think that our entire society has become one of trying to see who can prove they are the busiest, and I am realizing that is not how life is meant to be lived.  For those of you living in countries that take breaks during the day, work normal 8-5 jobs and spend time eating, I am jealous.  We here in America need to take on a bit of that lifestyle mentality.  Why is it that we feel like if we do anything fun, or relaxing its a bad thing?   We need more sleep, more good food, more conversation, more down time!!!  We need less craziness…I have been watching so many moms take on so much by letting their kids get involved in every single activity, and then run themselves ragged trying to accomplish it all, then at the end of the day complain about it…I just dont get it.

     So I am totally on a rampage and maybe not making a lot of sense (my brain is on T.V. overload) but I guess what hit me today it that I’m just tired.  Tired of trying to be the busiest one on the block, when what I really want to be able to do is celebrate anyone who can admit that they “just didn’t do much today”.  I want to get out of the rut I am in of feeling guilty for sitting during the day, and for getting my monthly massage.  There, I said it,  I get a massage once a month and I am proud.  It is my only time (besides grocery shopping) that I get to myself and I am not going to let another person saying “oh that must be nice” piss me off anymore.  You know what?  If you need a massage, a girls night out, or a hair cut, for goodness sakes, make it happen.  We all have the same number of hours in the day and its about time we start using them wisely.  So, I am starting a new trend; one that encourages time off instead of rewarding (fake) “business”.  We all have stuff going on but lets just take a minute to see how we can spend it a little more wisely…So with that being said, my family is playing downstairs and I am going to go join them!