18/03/2024
Weekends…
How often do you wake up on a Saturday morning and think
“Crap, the house is a mess”
“There’s so much we gotta do…”
And then you work with yourself thinking,
“I don’t care - we’re just gonna go out and enjoy ourselves”
“Out of sight, out of mind”
You try to talk yourself out of grinding about it.
“Messy house means it’s people living here”
“I’m not my mom who stayed at home, I was at work all week, of course it’s not gonna be all tidy and clean”
Before I move on, I just want to say: Yes!
This is all TRUE.
And if you did manage to put the mess, the crumbs, the dust bunnies, the piles of laundry, the finger marks all over - all behind you and actually went out to enjoy the day with your family : I hope you are proud of yourself!
Actually take a moment and give yourself a tap on the shoulder 👏
We are a completely new generation of women, mothers, wives that are unlearning as much as learning how to deal with it all.
But I also want you to know something else:
💫You deserve to wake up a Saturday morning and walk down to a spotless kitchen.
💫You deserve to look at the floor and not have last week’s bread crumbs crunching under your feet.
💫You deserve to pour yourself a cup of coffee and enjoy the warmth of a home you’ve created.
💫 You deserve to take a minute, breathe and get lost in the giggles and laughter while the whole fam is still in PJ’s.
You deserve to take the whole day out in the sun well knowing when you come home, there isn’t a mile long “to do” list that has to be done before the end of Sunday…
When working for yourself, working from home and being in total control of your schedule, this is actually possible.
It took me a while to actually accept this, and that’s why I’m sharing this with you.
Because I went for way too long battling the thoughts, the excuses, the opinions.
I’m 100% for lowering the expectation bar and not being so hard on ourselves..
But what if a tidy, well organized, well functioning home is what we want?
What we desire…
Not because of what someone else thinks, but because it’s what gives US the peace of mind, the “aaaaah” feeling?
Why should we then have to compensate?