Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds, Schedules Day 21 countdown.....

 

2. Listen to Your Mind and Body

I didn’t realize how quickly my body would tell on me until after I had my first son. The lack of sleep, dehydration from nursing without replenishing my own fuel tank, and surviving on random bites of random snacks wasn’t cutting it. I wasn’t showering or brushing my teeth as I should. I was simply surviving, all in the name of putting my son first. To an extent, the newborn season leaves you with little choice, but when you allow this idea of ignoring your body’s messages to continue, you and your family pay the price.

Listen to your mind and body this Christmas season, and recognize how your family is managing as well. Are the kids constantly burnt out from sugar highs, exhausted because they’re consistently out past their bedtime to attend yet another Christmas party? Is your husband feeling the mental weight of financially providing in this season because you feel obligated to cook for every Christmas function and bring a White Reindeer gift?

Don’t allow outside demands to harm the physical and mental well-being of your family (which includes you, too).

3. Set and Maintain a Reasonable Schedule 

Last-minute things will pop up. That’s just life, especially during the holiday season. However, you typically have a decent idea of your family’s December schedule in advance. You already know if there are ballet recitals, choir recitals, work parties, small group functions, volunteer events, and so on.

Take an evening to sit down with your family and map out your December calendar. This allows everyone to recognize just how much the family is already committed to, so no one is volunteering your family for yet another function that simply won’t fit with your prior festive obligations. (Source: Part 2 and 3 : from: How to Let Go of People-Pleasing This Holiday Season

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Have you noticed it? That Christmas Day is fast approaching? That time is running out to get done what we need to do. 

I know I can be slow. But it hit me a little while ago at about 4:00 am!

You may be asking: Why are you up at 4 am doing a post on Sunday? Or maybe you don't even care. But...

It's because my time is running out already today. lol. You see, my 40 plus son teaches SS in a Baptist Church in another state. We found out recently that I can go online and actually participate in his class as though I am there.

We got it set up yesterday as to how to do this and I think I will be successful. So, I aa getting an early start so I can be ready to hopefully tune in when that time comes.

Although, let there be no mistake, I usually am awake at this time of morning because last year I recused a homeless cat that came to my door during a severe storm we were having in our area and once I let him in, he became a wonderful fixture in my family. 

The downside to his coming here, is that he has made himself so comfortable here that he wakes me up early to meow (sometimes very loudly, lol) for food. And I cannot say no because he is an older cat and his body shows it and so I get up to feed him so that he no longer goes hungry. 

And because I love him.

Now that he is fed for a while, I remain wide awake, and that is ok. My sleep has always been fragmented anyway, for other reasons so it really isn't a big deal. 

Anyway, especially because of these particular posts I have been doing the past few days, I am doubling up today and will tomorrow as well, to get it wrapped up before we are unwrapping those gifts we will be receiving on Christmas Day.

Or as I said at the start of this one, you can check out originating website to get the rest of it for yourself, if you have a few spare minutes left to do so. 

So I thank you for staying with me because I may not know you, but I do desire for you to know Jesus and I love what I do in these posts to hopefully show you just how much He does love you.

During this season, during the Easter season, and every day. 

Thanks as always, for coming by. Have a wonderful day in His Holy Name which is above all other names under heaven. Philippians 2:9