Take each day as it comes

 30^th October 2018

When someone does something wrong, don’t forget all the things they did right.

Well the clocks might have gone back but my body isn’t playing that game, wide awake at 4am instead of 5am, thankfully we had an early night even for me!  I’m ready for my day, the fact we had such a lovely day yesterday has re-energised me too.

I spent a few hours on the morning, cleaning the kitchen before preparing a stew, which sat on the hob for hours, it’ll be perfect today.  Then I took mom with me to the food bank for the drive, we had a good natter on the way, talked about her days as a barmaid working at a pub in Brierley Hill where she met my dad, we tried to find the pub as we were over there anyway but it was long since demolished, she still enjoyed having a drive.  We found a song she’d started singing on YouTube and sang all the way home as the app changed automatically from one song to another. 

See as much as it’s good to spend time off your phone to engage with those around you and to be present in the world, they’re also amazing devices, yesterday it helped me get to Brierley hill with its map app and then helped me found info on songs and pubs for mom to keep her entertained.  They really are the best invention but like most things they can be used in the wrong way or overused.

She fancied chippy chips so that’s what we had for dinner, a bag of chips between us and we sat in the car together and ate them, precious quality time together, when I have the energy to handle the repetitive questions and she’s in a good mood are priceless and the calories from half a bag of chips is worth it.  Seeing her face as she walked round B&M’s on our way home was worth every penny of the bill at the till for all the biscuits she’d thrown in the basket, oh her diet went out the window about an hour after we had the conversation last week.  I’m afraid I have to pick my battles with her and that’s just not one I’m willing to have.  She enjoys eating crap and it’s one of her only pleasures so I’m not going to argue with her, I’ll try and limit it as best I can, she seems to have stabilised at what I call her happy weight, she’s been this weight for a good while so hopefully that’s where it’ll stay.

I didn’t eat after the chips, so didn’t do too much damage, no cooking to do today as the stews ready for eating on the cooker which means I get to spend a couple of hours with mom in-between morning and evening work.  I’ve finally got some balance in my life, who know it would take 30 years in the workplace to do that!

Today’s coaching card question – “who or what drains your energy?”  What can you do about this?”

Ooo that’s an interesting question, I actually know the answers to that for me but I’m not putting them in writing as I don’t want to offend anyone, but let’s just say I have made changes to address this problem.  Life’s too short to not make changes when they’re truly needed.

Anyway I’ll let you know how many dinners we donated again to the food bank once they’ve weighed it all and let me know, I do know I gave them another £269 cash which included raffle money for the blankets, the running total of cash raised now is £843.55 thank you so much everyone, no one should go hungry – ever! https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/donatedinner you can donate online or by simply texting WWDD66 followed by the amount to 70070.  My local Co-op has let me put a collection box for food in their shop by the door – how fab is that, I do hope people donate stuff in there.

Right that’s me, off to get ready for work and to enjoy my day, stay focused BeYOUtiful, we’re all over this, let’s get those results we want.