CHERI GILLARD
  • Author
  • Speaking
  • Contact
  • Blog
  • Editing Services

Take It Easy

12/5/2016

2 Comments

 
Picture
We looked relaxed, but I'm writing my blog on my phone. Spencer took this photo. He tells me I need to learn to take time off work.
This week is crazy and I just want to curl up and watch a movie and pretend I have nothing to do. Why is it that Decembers are always so busy? Besides my normal stuff, like teaching music lessons and writing this daily blog that I’m just about ready to bury in the backyard so I don’t have to see it or think about it, I’m booked. I thought getting Chloe’s Odyssey out would ease up my schedule for me. All it did was create a vacuum that sucked in a bunch of other commitments. In the next seven days, I have three rehearsals, three musical gigs, tickets to see a Christmas Carol, and a freelance writing deadline. I’m out every single night this week after today. And I hear a snowstorm is coming tomorrow. The only thing worse than driving in the dark for me is driving in the dark and in the snow. 
Let’s do something for ourselves today and take it easy. December has only just begun and it’s going to get worse. I’ll keep my blog short today. What will you do for yourself to make the day merrier or simpler? Stay in tonight and read a good book? Say no to yet another cry for your commitment to show up and fill a space? Put on some music for just one 3-minute song and enjoy it—actually listen to it—without interruptions? Or sing along with it while making dinner? Dance—yes, do that! Do a little dance. Or big dance, if dancing is already a part of your day. Yoga stretches? A walk? A glass of wine with dinner? Find something that will be a treat, an activity that will slow you down, if only for a moment, enough to notice life around you. And to enjoy something that would ordinarily slip past. Then take a deep breath, and jump back in. Or just go to bed. That’s a nice option too.
2 Comments
Grant Gillard
12/5/2016 06:24:32 pm

I hang out in the garage, put my cell phone on youtube.com and select "Epic Battle Music," and work on one of those chores I walk past each day with the promise that, "Some day I should..." It feels good to set aside everything else and get that chore off my radar.

Reply
Cheri
12/8/2016 02:10:53 pm

I LOVE doing things to "Epic Battle Music." There isn't much you can't do with that in the background!

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    Want my stories delivered right to your inbox? I can do that! Click the button below to sign up and I'll make sure to send my post right to you each week.
    ​Welcome aboard!
    Click here to sign up!

    Life with Quadruplets

    As a mother of quadruplets, I've had plenty of crazy experiences raising "supertwins." I blog a lot of memories about my kids. Sometimes just my thoughts on things. I get those sometimes—when my brain works. Which is about one third of the time. 

    Archives

    September 2020
    August 2020
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    April 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    February 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014

    Categories

    All
    Blog Hop
    Book Reviews
    Cakes
    Cooking
    Count Down!
    Eating
    Flash Fiction Friday
    Giveaways
    Growing Up
    Halloween
    Just The Two Of Us
    Life Philosophy
    Mommy Mumday
    National Something Day
    Op Ed
    Photos
    Raising Quadruplets
    Throw Back Thursdays
    Time Travel Trivia Quiz
    Today In History
    Write On!

Proudly powered by Weebly
  • Author
  • Speaking
  • Contact
  • Blog
  • Editing Services