The last week or more has been hard with the boys and life I guess. The boys are all dealing with various sleep issues from calling out from bed, crawling out of his crib (that’s a big one) and lil’ G just thinks its an all night smorgasbord. John and I have been getting no sleep, but then again what did we expect w/3 babes under 4 years old.
When I don’t get sleep I don’t function well physically or emotionally. Luckily, my sweet husband knows this and is very accommodating. Last night he took them all to Incredible Pizza for several hours. I was home alone and intended to sleep but didn’t, so I shut myself into my bedroom and put in a movie (Into the Wild). I chose my bedroom b/c it was the only clean room in the house and I couldn’t really rest otherwise. I watched it dozed in and out of sleep and still went to bed by 9:45pm.
Today I felt great and thought it was like setting a reset button on my body to go back to normal I guess. Then I started thinking I have a bunch of different reset buttons, but none of them are for the same situation. And really I’m only recently coming aware of what they are and when to use them.
One of my reset buttons is, like yesterday, being by myself. Especially now in my life, I crave alone time. This can mean alone at home or alone outside of home. It’s hard to be alone at home though b/c I always feel that there is something that needs to be done. But staying in the bedroom yesterday proved very benefiial – I need to remember that.
Another reset button is my time with God. Just being by myself, reading his Word and talking with Him. Seems so easy, I don’t know why I don’t press this button more.
Nature is another one. I crave nature. Sometimes my backyard is enough, but sometimes I need to go on a trail, see nothing but trees, or be by some water.
Another one is being with my girlfriends. I have been blessed with some a-mazing girlfriends. The kind that inspire, encourage and just love on me. Who wouldn’t be reset after being around that!
So what’s some other reset buttons?
