One of my favorite things to remind myself and others is that they don’t stress you out, it doesn’t stress you out—-YOU STRESS YOU OUT!
Many times since becoming a mother I have needed to remind myself of this. Yesterday on the way to my birthday lunch being one. I was driving and calculating the time she had already been awake to when she would need a nap again. She doesn’t like to sleep so can sometimes can have a meltdown. I was stressing that she would need a nap while I was at lunch and would start to fuss loudly.
AND THEN I CAUGHT MYSELF.
What will happen will happen. If she has a meltdown I will deal with it. Life will not end. I will soothe her. I can walk away. I can handle it. And she may not even fuss. So why the hell am I stressing instead of enjoying my beautiful life and amazing daughter.
And guess what happened? I didn’t stress and she fell asleep easily in her stroller and woke up happy and it was a perfect afternoon.
So stress….I’m so done with you. What good have you done for anyone lately, or ever!
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