It's been a crazy month. Summer tot music classes and playgroups are over. My son's nanny share coasted to a close and we started the transition to preschool. My husband's school year started back with lots to do to settle into teaching and helping new students; he's had a lot of late work nights. As our weekly family patterns began falling apart, my son started waking up once or twice a night so he can holler for mama. It's hard for me to fall back asleep. In short, our house is in a minor uproar.
I'm in a transition period that finds me exhausted and scrambling for time to keep up with Persistent Elephant. Yet by the end of next week everything should be settling down. And getting healthy will be a huge priority for me. Stay tuned!
Yes, a necessary process, I think, for life to get a bit too busy to practice and then find our way back to the practice (of health eating/living.) One metaphor, esp for me, is getting out of step in Contra Dancing, and then recovering. As I got to be a better dancer, I was really getting better at recovering from being out of step.
ReplyDeleteI feel a bit of out of step in health eating, got to keep practicing, and maybe remind myself of the reasons, find a way to get back into practice, into step. I also think sometimes in our lives there is just too much going on, as you describe.
Often as work heats up with the start of school, I fall out of practice. It is mostly in order to "reward" myself after a hard day (well, not compared to miners, but...) and sometimes because not enough time for shopping, cooking, exercise.
So, some of it is for me to change my attitude about work, I just decide I'm not going to let it compromise my health. Of course, it is a balance.
At Kripalu we made a plan for the week, maybe I'll do that, one week at a time!