Daily Dose of Sugar Mama

Wife, Mother, Daycare Provider, Cook, Cleaning Lady, Taxi Service….

It can all be draining. It can be suffocating. You could very well get lost.

As busy women, we sometimes forget all of our self. We hear the whisper, sometimes it’s more like a scream. Begging to find yourself again. It’s different for all of us.

For me it’s the need to do something outside of the day to day. Being all of me requires stepping out. Stepping away from the mom & wife duties. Because aren’t we all better mothers and wives when we are full? The answer is a deafening “yes!”. So what is it that keeps you from being all of you? Is it fear? Laziness? Confusion? Lack of time? Does the thought of trying to find yourself again feel overwhelming?

Let me fill you in on something I’m learning the hard way;

Unless you make time for YOU, you will lose yourself. And the more lost you become the harder it is to find your way back.

Wouldn’t it feel good to be at your best? Teen said to me the other day “Mom, have you always been so boring?”. I told him that paying bills, doing dishes, helping with homework, and keeping the house from falling apart  makes me a boring person,  before all of that I was pretty damn cool. But is that an excuse? Because not all mothers & wives lose themselves.

So, tell me, have you ever been lost? Do you feel you are being ALL of your self? What do you enjoy doing for you and how do you make it happen? What kind of legacy are you leaving for your children? Will they remember you as tired and burned out or fun and creative? And then I challenge you to make a list of things that you have been putting off. Things that you always said you’d do “someday”. It can be anything, as long as it makes you feel you. It doesn’t have to make sense to anyone else.