You don’t need a Sunday reset. You just need a nap.
Why I left the suitcases in the hallway & unsubscribed from the post-vacation reset.
It’s been a week since my family & I came home from our trip to Disney World.
Was it fun? Yes.
Did we all come back exhausted? Yes.
And I’ll be honest, there was a version of me not that far back that would’ve ignored it.
Would’ve pushed through. Would’ve spent my entire Sunday aggressively unpacking suitcases the second they hit the hallway floor. Would’ve run three back-to-back loads of laundry while simultaneously panic-ordering groceries on my phone so the kids had balanced lunches packed for school.
Would’ve chosen to completely drain whatever battery I had left just to get my whole household caught up, organized & reset—because if I don’t, who else will?
But what did that get me? Nothing more than a deeper sense of exhaustion with a healthy dose of overwhelm to top it off.
For years, I let myself buy into the belief that this is just “how life is” (whatever that means). For a while, I even let myself believe, “Well, maybe if I just get ahead of it before we go out of town, it’ll be easier to get back on track.”
Excuse me, what?
I see now this is the game: to convince us women that we are so capable that we can always do more. We can synthesize, optimize & organize to cram every waking moment with anything else that crops up in this whack-a-mole game of mom life.
And we’re so hard on ourselves when we “fall short.” When is enough ever enough? The answer is never. Because The Capable Mom can always do more. 👯♀️
But I’ve unsubscribed. This isn’t the life I came here to live. It isn’t remotely close to what I want to put my time, energy or heart toward.
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