10/27/2025
It has been a rough few years for my own family. Losing parents, seeing a close family member through cancer and now another diagnosed. Major sandwich generation experiences unfolding one after another and sometimes on top of each other.
What I’m really taking to heart is that self care has to come FIRST or it will never come at all.
I’ve got some healthy breakfasts prepped, I’m back on the wagon with exercise and there are four baskets of clean laundry downstairs that I’m not folding because I need to get enough SLEEP.
I NEVER have everything done but I do have my priorities straight. Instead of focusing on what didn’t get done, I’m focusing on what did (even though I really do wish I had gotten to the laundry!) Halloween costumes got sorted, food got made, baseball got watched. We still have love, quality time, joy and laughter amidst the grief and stress.
