To love or not to love the Holidays

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I find myself immersed in my bubble bath, realizing that my mind was actually preparing me for the 2 weeks holidays that had just arrived.
This is the first holidays that involves my kids being teenagers and myself being a Stay at Home Mom who is also a Work at Home Mom. They usually go away to family members and spend their time with activities and getting spoilt. Since we have moved countries and I have taken up working from home a full time occupation, things have changed dramatically. In a good way, we are just getting used to the routines and new habits that we are putting together as a family.

So the first few days are full of "Muuuuuum!! I'm booooreed" said in such an enthusiastic teenage way! and remember, there's two of them. Also money is a bit tight at the moment with me off work trying to become some form of success story from my bedroom/office in as little time possible.

So I drag myself out of the office with a paper trail behind me. Right!  "who's got a ball?" They both look at each other with a look in their faces that I can not describe! So I revert to ok where's my iPad, lets download some games. I try to sneak back into the office to get some form of work done, only to turn around and have them both following me. 

I try to revert to getting up early so I can get as much as I can done while they sleep and go to bed as late as I can to squeeze some more work in. Only to realize, when they wake i have no energy what so ever for them. So I have to put myself in a time out and really think about things, re-evaluate my time and myself and hopefully come up with something that will work for all of us.

I ask the kids what they would like to do. Funny enough they come up with a few games and we chat about a lot of things, which really make time fly, we had a lot of laughs and cooked dinner as a team and baked some treats.

I stay up a little late and get up a little earlier to get some work done, but when the kids get up my energy is refocused on them, realizing that it is only 2 weeks and the time I give them is a life time memory for them and myself. The work will still be there but the kids are close to moving out (I think) and starting their lives, so I really have learnt to slow down and appreciate the time we do have together. 

One day will come when:
*   I will miss hearing them call me from way down the hall expecting me to come to them instead of them come to me 
*   I will miss all the laundry over the bath room floor right next to the laundry basket
*   I will miss the mud over the clean floors I just mopped 
*   I will miss the giggling and wrestling we do on the couch as we all fight over the remote 
*   I will miss driving for an hour to watch them play sports in the rain while i watch from in the car and study
*   I will also miss the big hugs they give me everyday and saying thanks for everything mum! 

I'm actually coming to realize that I dread the days when "I love you" will be said only over the phone months at a time..

I now love the holidays! 

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About Freida

My God Given talents direct me towards helping others and my passion is to help women get to know who they really are inside. It is important for us as women and mums to know that there are people that can help us and want to help us in our daily lives and with our problems that we tend to bottle up. 

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