I’ve mentioned how much I love putting together my weekly newsletter. Join the conversation here! It feels like a personal life note I get to send out on Monday mornings, but I also hope it’s a helpful round up of new and seasonally relevant blog posts, weekly meal plan, and discount codes.

After hitting send this morning, I felt like I wanted to share a snippet of my newsletter here on the blog as well:

A Snippet from My Newsletter

Hello from the land of packing tape, empty cabinets, and worn down bodies and minds. This past week has been a whirlwind! We visited the new house on Thursday and seeing the cabinets being installed absolutely thrilled me! I still pinch myself that this dream I didn’t even know we had is coming true. Something about it all just feels so right for us and I am grateful.

We spent Saturday and Sunday busting our booties packing up the whole house. I’m really glad the girls are at camp and having fun instead of having to dredge through these long days of packing with us. They’ve been such troopers over the past few chaotic months. My nephew and a college buddy of his show up today to help us load things into a rented moving truck and move them to our storage units in our new town.

We pick the kids up on Thursday, close on Friday, and head south to move in with my mom for a bit. Thanks, mom! 😉

In all sincerity, I’m really looking forward to it. I’m looking forward to the time with her, beginning our homeschool year, and having chance to catch our breaths for a bit. Heck, maybe I’ll even get to make a meal plan, again!

Gentle Reminder of the Week

You can be both stressed out and grateful at the same time. Speaking directly to myself here, but maybe it will resonate with you, too. I’ve had a hard time allowing myself to admit I’m at capacity (perhaps over capacity) right now because I’m so darn happy and grateful about the direction we are heading in. The result of that was me having a meltdown yesterday- full on alligator tears, head in my hands, curled up in bed kind of overwhelm.

Fortunately a loving David, a chocolate ice cream bar, and turning on Meet the Parents for some comic relief got me back on track, but I think it’s OK to remind myself that I can be both grateful and overwhelmed at the same time.

If the past few years have taught me anything, it’s that we are complex beings and are very capable of feeling two emotions at once. I guess sometimes I feel guilt over that, like if nothing is truly terrible, then I shouldn’t feel exhausted/emotional/overwhelmed. But if I take the old advice of talk to yourself like you would a best friend, my words would sound more like this:

“What you are feeling is completely valid. It’s been 6+ months of transition and you’re at the peak right now. Give yourself some grace. Break each day’s demands into manageable chunks, and focus just on the task directly in front of you. It will all get done. You’ve got this.”

So with that, I’m off to take on the day! Thanks for bearing with me through this chaotic season. <3