Housewife Life: The Weekly Reset

For the past few months, one of my favorite YouTubers, Sam at Happily a Housewife, has been talking about doing a weekly reset. She sets aside some time over the weekend to reset the house, her purse, her planner, etc. It has had me thinking. Is there a way I can do a weekly reset? Is that something I need to do?

Usually by Monday morning our house is a tornado. My routines just fall apart when my husband is home. So Monday, which is laundry day, is usually a day that I piddle around the house...putting things away, doing things I skipped over the weekend...just general de-cluttering. Is that a weekly reset? I guess so.

Ideally, I would love to do a reset on Sunday, but Sundays are exhausting...

So, should I work in a weekly reset or should I just institute a weekend routine?

What do you do? Share below.

Motivational Monday: Do Something Today...

A few months ago, the idea of helping my future self was introduced to me by one of my favorite YouTubers, Sam at Happily a Housewife.

Over the past little few months, I have been helping tomorrow's future self by running the dishwasher or just getting the laundry done instead of letting it linger on for days.

But recently, I have been thinking about how I can help the Jennie in six months. I keep asking myself, What can I do to help myself in six months, or a year?

I have been exercising daily. I do a daily devotional, keep a one sentence a day journal and a gratitude journal, take a German lesson and do a five minute meditation. I am reading as much as I can and I have been fine-tuning my housekeeping skills.

My new morning routine is one that is giving me energy, both mentally and physically, so I know December Jennie will appreciate it, but is it enough? How do you know when you are doing enough or when you are doing too much?

What do you think? Do you keep your future self in mind? Share your thoughts below.

Some Days You Just Need to Recharge - Motivational Monday

When this year started, I was gung-ho about making the most out of 2018. I was going to get my act together and figure out this housewife thing, improve myself and improve my relationships.

After my grandmother passed away in mid-February, I knew I needed to be gentle with myself, but that I also needed to keep up with at least the things I had in progress. I told myself I would give myself the season of Lent to keep the status quo, but that when I returned from our Easter trip, it would be full steam ahead again.

I kept to that. When we returned from our trip to Las Vegas, I had a renewed sense of energy and dove in to my spring cleaning. I had lists and I was going to cross everything off of those lists. To up the ante even further, after I finished most of the spring cleaning, I started my 100 Days to Destin journey.

Last week, I had a hard day. I was plagued by insecurity and frustration. I was overwhelmed with all of the balls I was juggling and it all hit me at once.

The next day, I let myself off the hook a bit. I still walked, did my morning routine. I cleaned the kitchen, but I couldn't get the energy up to mop or clean out the refrigerator, so I just didn't. I gave myself the grace I needed to just take a minute to recharge.

That night, we tried a new restaurant and went to a movie and it was just what I needed. A low pressure, low stress evening with my husband.

The following day I made myself get back to it and now I feel just as energized as I did when I got back from Las Vegas.

Those two days following my hard day two messages came through. On Thursday, Sam at Happily a Housewife talked about mom burnout and that sometimes just doing something fun with your family is enough to get back on track. On Friday, my meditation app drove that point further home for me. I'm in the middle of the Basics course of meditation on the Headspace app and the message for Day 5 was that some days, you need to take your foot off the gas so you can refocus the next day. (Lots of paraphrasing there). Hearing those messages made me feel less alone. I realized having a hard day and needing to recharge was not a sign of weakness or failure, it just made me human.

How do you recharge? Are you good at recharging before it becomes critical, or are you like me and push yourself too far? Let me know in the comments below.