Daily writing prompt

What principles define how you live?

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What principles define how I live? I’m not sure how to answer this question so off to google to find the definition of principles. After my search I believe I have found the answer for me. Being authentic in how I live life is very important. Being the true me and living my life to the fullest is very important and teaching my children how to do the same and to be the true them. In this society its very hard to stay true to yourself with all the social media cramming down your throat all the other ways people think you should be living your life its so easy to forget who you are and whats so important to you.

To be my authentic self that would be being outside as much as I can be, having all the farm animals in the land on my farm, sprinkle in some work, reading the books that interest me and make me happy, watching my favorite movies and shows as many times as it makes me happy, and so much more.

My second principle that is important to me is setting boundaries. It has taken me many years to figure this one out and really work hard in setting them. The most difficult part about setting the boundaries is how uncomfortable they are to set and enforce others to fellow them. The second difficult part is how those around you may not like the boundaries and they will be sure to let you know how they don’t like the changes.

Daily writing prompt

What have you been putting off doing? Why?

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What have I put off doing and why? Well, the answer is real simple I guess. I have been putting off self care for myself. Self care for many is something that happens every day, once a week, once a month, every couple of months, or never and can include many different activities either inside the home or outside of the home. For me its mostly every couple of months when I gather the balls to actually do something by myself without my husband but when I do, mom guilt is tagging along for the ride. In the end mom guilt wins and I end up cutting back on doing any form of self care. Mom guilt for me is so much more then feeling bad about not spending the extra time with my children but instead its me making lists of all the things I could be doing with them from watching a movie with them to doing some sort of extra school related activity that could help that child or children advance in school. I also think about how I work and hour after they get done with school and we rush home to make dinner and they ask me all sorts of questions. The questions mostly being about their chance of playing video games with friends online or me asking them if they had finished their homework. I then become consumed in the dinner rush hour, then baths, animal chores, and possibly doing some chore around the house that has been neglected for sometime. Finally when I have a chance to sit down its phone time for me. I like to shut off my brain and scroll of social media for a few minutes which turns into a half hour to a hour. That time is lost and I’ll never get it back which really saddens me and I have come up with countless of times on how I will reduce my phone usage and focus my time on other things. I have veered off the topic slightly here but it defiantly all goes together.

Daily writing prompt

When was the first time you really felt like a grown up (if ever)?

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The first time I felt like a grown up was when I was 23 years old and I have just given birth to my first born child. At this point I have been married for 2 years, we bought a house, and I have just what I thought recovered fully from my eating disorder that had been running ramped for little over a year. It had hit me their in the hospital as I was holding my baby that he would depend on me for everything and that I would have to be his voice and no how to encourage him to thrive. That is when I knew I was a grown up.