Tuesday Takeaway

Momma Edition.

Ten Years of Motherhood

My youngest child is under the weather and had a fever. As most of us do we reach for the fever reducer and cross our fingers right? Thats what we do. Well, here we are in 2023 we have survived a new age

pandemic, a toilet paper shortage, milk shortage, entire store shelves shortage, a fuel surge, going back to the "real" absentee rules at school and now concerns of rising egg costs.

"Karen mode is a thing and it can be done gracefully without sass."

This brings me to the challenge of our new normal when trying to skate around the strangeness of 2020-present and stay away from the "Karen" label as much as humanly possible. Can't you tell I have an 8 and 10 year old in the house with that reference. But really, Karen mode is a thing and it can be done gracefully without sass

So back to the feverish child right? Without getting into the logistics I had to gracefully tell the Doctors nurse that my child is presenting strep and that I know because after being a mother for 10 years strep presents itself as strep and not ANY. OF. THOSE. Other things. Its really hard isn't it? Trying to find some sort of normalcy in this world now a day?

So we may as well move straight into the comfort zone topic. I never would have handled this particular situation as well as I did and as gracefully as I did unless all of the craziness of the previous years had happened. Which has left me questioning. How do you break the comfort zone of our "middle age" age children. This make me chuckle. Middle aged child. Thats what they are though at age 10 right? Im currently trying to change my habits and create solid routines for myself but how do we do this for a 10 year old? I would love to start a topic thread in regard to how other families have changed routines or adjusted their lifestyle to fit the middle age adolescent life. We have moved into the cell phones stage so will lists and calendar pings and all those things work?

Good old pen and paper work for me because at the end of the day I need to stare at my schedule full of sports practices, band practices, doctor, dentist, ortho appointments in order to be sure that I can achieve it all without forgetting. After-all all I have made It as a momma this long and an entire new year is starting. No one tells you how fast this all goes, how much knowledge you are now qualified to file away and literally how time blocking by 3o minutes a day can actually keep you on the track to sanity easier than winging it.

Lets chat. How do you help your middle agers creep out of their comfort zone?