Combatting Burn Out

Is anyone else feeling.. burnt out lately? Summer is usually my time to thrive, k, but then explain to me why this is what I look like telling my toddlers to get TF in the car for the 500th time this week.

WE’RE GOING TO STORY TIME. IT’S GOING TO BE FUN DAMNIT.

Like, gosh dang y’all my patience is WORN THIN right now. So.. let’s talk about a few things helping me thrive and not just survive.

Cutesy Things

Fresh flowers, especially on nightstands, improve my mood 10000%. And yes, we normally have bedsheets, but content creation is my SAHM side hustle and the mattress and pillows were the star of the shot here (we were due for an upgrade and my back is thankful).

More importantly, my toddlers just got the cutest play kitchen ever, and like.. I want to use it more than they do. Tradesies.

Bed, play kitchen, cake. Top tier happiness.

Last, but certainly not least. CAKE. I made this for my daughter’s second birthday and ohemgee so good. I subbed Cool Whip for the organic alternative at the grocery store, but yeah it was still loaded with seed oils. And tasty AF.

Dinner Outside

As much as possible. The less clean up, the better my mental health. Blackstone in the backyard, or hotdogs at the river (thanks to this), if we’re outside I’m already happier. As a 2x toddler mom, quesadillas and burgers STAY in our daily rotation.

Yes, please.

Morning Outside

Sensing a theme here, but I try to start every morning watering the garden first thing, before I check my phone. If I can breathe in fresh air, get some sunshine directly in my retinas, and curse out the slugs first thing in the morning, I’m a better person for it.

Despite the slug war - Our broccoli and strawberries are 10/10. We have hundreds of blackberry bushes surrounding walking trails around our neighborhood and gorge ourselves every day. Fingers crossed they remain cyclosporiasis free.

I hope to go forth into the world with as much confidence as my daughter has when picking mismatched shoes.

If you have thriving (or surviving) recs - I’d love to know, leave them below!

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