Happy New Year 2023!
Welcome to School Commute Convos where we have conversations about random topics while driving our children to school.
In this episode, we are welcoming the new year and we are off to a different start.
We want to begin with the question:
- What are some goals for the new year?
- What do you have planned for the new year?
- What can you do to give yourself a mental break?
During our much-needed Christmas Break, it was a time of reflection and quiet time. After a very stressful semester and the last couple of weeks, it was much needed. Around the holidays we made a choice to not make a big fuss. Hence the Christmas tree was put up last minute and little to no gifts were put under the tree but we end up having an amazing dinner followed the next day with a game day full of snacks, treats, and Monopoly.
It was funny that we wanted to buy a brand-new game from Amazon but we ended up getting the Millienal year 2000 edition from a drift store we happen to visit into for the price of $3.00. Funny how the world works to help when you don't even know it. It was the best investment ever because it was only missing 1 piece and everything else was intact. A long night of laughter, being broke, and learning to accept defeat from your oldest son.
New Year's was very busy and we ended up going to Andres's brother's house and it was a full house. Needless to say, it was a celebration into the new year that was successful with full bellies and welcomed company. We got home late slept in and enjoyed the rest of the break.
Getting back to routine and back to the grind was the hardest thing anyone had to do. Making sure that alarms were set, tanks were filled and uniforms clean, but unfortunately we did not hear the alarms and it was way too late to try to make it to school. We gave up the notion of rushing back and we all just took a "mental day" and it was exactly what we needed.
So going back to answer those questions
- What are some goals for the new year? We are trying to implement Journal writing and Mediation with little to no success and I am trying to figure out why. But the things I really want to do are:
- Go on more-Date nights with my significant other
- Game night- spending quality time and losing to my children
- Going to sporting Events: Basketball, hockey, basketball- whichever is affordable
- Trying to go on Vacation- but that looks like that is going to be on hold for now
- Trying to save money- is harder than it is with everything going up in price
- Organizing more on the Calendar- to put those events on paper to feel more accomplished
- Taking a break from Nursing School- after failing the last semester I have to look elsewhere to continue my nursing degree and both my ego and confidence are shot; Failure suck big time
2. What do you have planned for the new year? I essentially have nothing planned just going with the flow at this point. Who knows what the future holds?
3. What can you do to give yourself a mental break? Try not to take so much on. I am personally guilty of that but I do it so that my brain is too busy to be sad or depressed. I do it so that my brain isn't allowed to feel the weight of the world that I place on myself and the relentless pressure of not failing puts me in a dark place that I rather not be in. So I have to take a breather in all I do before it becomes too much for me to handle.
2023 is the year of self-healing and our hope is that it is applicable to me, my family, and all of you.
Last year has been hard financially, mentally, and physically, so we owe it to ourselves to give ourselves a little break, along with some credit and cutting ourselves a little slack.
As a woman, wife, mom, parent, nursing student, and wanna-be content creator with several podcasts I think I am doing ok for myself. I often spread myself too thin and that is a disaster waiting on the sideline to see me fail. See there I go again not giving myself credit and not recognizing my strength. That damn imposter syndrome is real. The struggle is real. Just know that self-healing is not a short goal but a long game we play to maintain our sanity and self-image.
These conversations are like therapy for me and I hope they can help you do the same by having these open conversations and interesting topics. Thank you for reading.
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