Got Space?

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I’m sorry I missed y’all last Saturday! It has been rather topsy turvey in my neck of the woods these past two weeks.

Without going into too much detail, I would like to fill you in on what contributed to my being missing in blog action. In the blink of an eye I went from sending my daughter off to middle school every morning to being a homeschooling mom.

This decision has definitely upended the daily routine that has been a fine tuned machine since Kindergarten. Especially MY daily routine of having a few hours to call my own. As moms we all know the importance of ‘quiet time’. No, silly mom, not for your children. For you. There has never been more a time in my life when this factoid has really hit home for me.

• • it allows us time to reflect on our priorities
  • it gives us time to pursue our own guilty pleasures
  • it helps us keep in touch with who we were before we were moms
  • it refreshes us
  • I wake up an hour early. When Miss Sam was an infant I used to think this was absolute insanity when people suggested this. Yet now, because she is a teen and sleeps much later….my waking up an hour early is more like 7:00 am instead of 4 am.

Having time and space to call our own is important for several reasons:I so can relate to how difficult it is to find that space and that moment in time to call your own. I need a new hat rack for all the different hats I wear. And now I have added the homeschool (unschooling) mama hat. Me time now is not carved out by the public school system. I have to carve it out for myself.

How have I begun to do this?

That is as far as I have gotten in my plan to find more me time. It works. Yet there is so much more I want to pursue that doesn’t quite fit in to that two hour time period.

So my question is:

How do you find more ‘me’ time in your busy day???? Inquiring minds would love for you to share.

Don’t forget, if there is a question that you would like to have answered or a topic you would like to have discussed, be sure to email me at dbeverlyhills@gmail.com. All questions will remain anonymous. All answers will be sprinkled with my perspective.