{"id":62926,"date":"2022-11-03T08:19:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T12:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/?p=62926"},"modified":"2022-11-03T08:28:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T12:28:24","slug":"emotions-november-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/emotions-november-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Emotions &#038; November Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Heading into the thick of the holiday season is such a beautiful, fun, festive time. I&#8217;ll be honest with you though; I&#8217;ve been emotional for&#8230; a couple months now. I turned 39 in September and I am wondering if I&#8217;m personally trying to stretch this whole year into a midlife crisis? Crisis sounds immediate and dramatic, and I don&#8217;t feel that, but emotional? Yes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I stare at the kids daily and wonder how we got here; they are getting so big so fast. I don&#8217;t have toddlers to worry about potty training or eating vegetables anymore. Parenting is less physically demanding, but more emotionally demanding now (am I guiding them well, teaching them what they need to know?). I&#8217;m spending more time just sitting with them, brushing evening tangles out of hair and listening to what&#8217;s on their minds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m looking at David and noticing a few grays pop up in his beard and want to just quit everything and take off on a giant adventure with him. I want to live big and do it with the people I love while we&#8217;re all feeling energetic and healthy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I want to simultaneously take on 100 new projects and quit everything. I want to find a way to make time just stop for a month. I want to go do all the things and see all the people and yet at the same time I want to just cozy up at home with my family and shut out the crazy world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I want to travel with my mom and somedays I still really, really miss my dad. Time just flies and I want to figure out how to make the most of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So November goals. Perhaps number one should be find a therapist? <em>Half kidding<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Pick three a day. I have a master &#8220;to do&#8221; list and each day I go in and pick three items to focus on for the day. That&#8217;s IT. It might feel like not enough sometimes, but I find three items is enough to move the needle forward and still make time for the necessary daily tasks and some margin.<\/li><li>Keep meals simple. I&#8217;m not in a season to create new recipes right now and I need to just embrace that. Even if I&#8217;m sharing dinners on IG, they can be simple. Last night I shared our Indian takeout- ha!<\/li><li>Embrace the cozy days. If a slow and rainy day arrives, I don&#8217;t want to push through it; I want to breath it in and enjoy it.<\/li><li>Clean out the closets. I have piles of stuff I&#8217;m just waiting to figure out what to do with, but I&#8217;m over it. Donate, giveaway, throw away. I am ready for a more peaceful space.<\/li><li>Let Christmas slip in. Not sure when we&#8217;ll pull out decorations but if a rainy day presents itself I will not hesitate to turn of a Christmas flick. So many good ones and so little time!<\/li><li>Just keep sharing whatever comes to mind. Somedays I feel a bit of an identity crisis in this space. I don&#8217;t have the chubby, cherub-faced toddlers to share about anymore, I&#8217;m not creating many new recipes in this phase of life, and sharing the health information I find fascinating (like how to balance blood sugars- my A1C and fasting glucose\/insulin in my most recent blood work were the best they&#8217;ve ever been) feels preachy or like I don&#8217;t have enough letters behind my name to share that kind of info. Is there a space here for a mom in a busy season of homeschooling and life, just sharing about the day to day?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Quite the impromptu little vent, huh? Thanks for listening. &lt;3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heading into the thick of the holiday season is such a beautiful, fun, festive time. 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