We all need to know when to quit. When to throw in the towel and give up. It is a good thing to know before you hit your meltdown point. It is a powerful thing to stop it before it happens.
We have had a busy month.
Heck, a busy year.
We have been working SO HARD, so very hard on everything. Working on the house, the business and the “quality time” with the kids, but lately, it has all been beating us.
We are getting to “that point”. The place we tried to escape when we moved here, and the place that we always seem to drift back towards.
Too much.
So. we stop.
We throw in the towel. We say no. We unplug, cancel and re-evaluate.
We eat pizza in the meadow instead of cooking dinner.
And we skip school/work/activities and re-focus our energy on each other.
Because THAT is why we did all this. We made the change, we worked so hard, we grew our balls ten sizes bigger. We did all of that so we could have a life we loved and spend time with our family.
And sometimes when things get too hard, it just might be time to give into them.
It isn’t a sign of failure, or weakness. It might actually be a little nudge from the universe to get you back on track.
I walked into this week trying to make things work. Then last night we rushed our daughter off to emergency at the hospital. Her neck swelled up in less than an hour and she was in pain. It “looked” like mumps . . . but it couldn’t be the mumps.
She came home after a few hours, and a heavy dose of medication. She is currently curled up in bed, sleeping and recovering. Thankfully it is an infected saliva duct and nothing more serious or debilitating.
And thank you “universe” for reminding me that life is short, and stress is a heavy burden to bear. That there should be more moments of loving life, that of scrambling to stay on top of it.
That sometimes submitting is exactly what our souls need to rest and recover.
So starting now, I am re-calibrating.
Finding my “true north” again and reminding myself that I built this life, and that means I have control over what I choose to do, and what I say no to.
I have the power to make it fabulous, or make it destructive.
And I choose fabulous.