My goal lately (ever since Spring break) has been to limit myself a little bit. Which doesn't sound like a lofty goal! But it needs to be done. I'm making myself crazy tired, which means that all of my attempts to be the perfect mother-wife-teacher-woman (admittedly there aren't as many attempts to be the perfect teacher, but it's on the list) are just making me overwhelmed and exhausted and cranky. Which does not make for a perfect mother-wife-teacher-woman! Vicious cycle, I has it!
It's harder to stop than I expected. Easter, I decided, would just have to be more low-key than how I do most holidays. You guys, I love holidays! All of them! And in order to keep loving them, I'm going to have to calm the heck down about them a little. I made a list of the things we would do for Easter, and determined to LIMIT MYSELF TO THAT LIST. NO REALLY.
It's been really, really difficult. Yesterday I made several runs at my plastic Easter egg stash because we really did need an Easter egg garland or two. The spring-y wreath I made for the front door was nice and all, but an Easter egg garland would really make it POP! And it'll only take, what two hours tops. What's two hours compared to the loveliness of our home and the happiness of my children and the sweetness of their early memories of Easter? THEY WOULD LOVE AN EASTER EGG GARLAND, you know they would!
Except, you know, we aren't even having our Easter festivities at my house. By all means, crazy woman, kill yourself making decorations that all of five people will see and will be on display for two whole days.
I did not make an Easter egg garland. My husband (upon hearing of my desperate internal debate) made me go get my nails done, instead. And I do mean made. He's gotten really bossy lately.
(But I did get my toenails painted a very Easter egg-y color because I'm a rebel like that!)
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Can Joey make ME got get my nails done? They haven't seen a professional I i was 12 weeks pregnant with Kitty! Which was, what...2+ years ago? And it SHOWS.
ReplyDeleteYAY for limiting yourself - I think I should follow your example :)
Oh praise the lord. I thought you were going to say you actually made that fool garland and I was going to CRY for you! You are prohibited from making any other Easter decorations for your house, do you hear me, young lady?????
ReplyDeleteYay for resisting the urge to craft! It is hard to do. What a lucky lady you are to have such a sweet Joey! And way to rebel- Easter toes. Take that!
ReplyDeleteThat's what my Mum and I are like at Christmas. :) There's always something new we want to try, always, and if it turns out that we enjoyed it, it gets added to our list of Christmas traditions. So much so that it's practically a Christmas tradition that we have a very serious conversation about what we do and don't have time for and what we can possibly bear to compromise on. Most of the time, the compromise has to be to do less of something though, as opposed to not doing it at all. :) Last year's "new thing" was cookie mixes in jars and that's definitely going to be a permanent fixture.
ReplyDeleteWe don't really mark Easter though, not unless the yearly attempt at making our own Hot Cross buns counts. And by that I mean "yearly failure". We got as close as we've ever been this year, being the proud new owners of a mixer with a dough hook, but we still got fed-up halfway through and turned the dough into a Chinese Round instead. But at least it tasted good, which is more than can be said for our previous attempts. Next year's the year. :)
Other than that, the only other Easter tradition we have is my Mum trading me Mini Eggs for any other Easter chocolate that come in my direction. My Mum swears that it tastes different - can't say I've noticed - and there's not much I wouldn't do for a bag of Mini Eggs, so it makes sense. :)