Me-Time

Me-Time definitely brings me Joy, brings me peace. 

Me-Time defined as “time spent relaxing on one’s own as opposed to working or doing things for others, seehave n as an opportunity to reduce stress or restore energy”.

My Me-Time usually happens at this time of night, late, usually from 9/9:30pm.  It happens late when it is quiet and the children are asleep.

My Me-Time usually involves watching Netflix – I love movies and TV series.  My hubby is good to me, he lets me have the tv to myself at night.  I really must let my hubby watch more of his shows this year.

My Me-Time involves writing - I really love writing and this Me-Time brings Joy. 

My Me-Time involves catching up with friends for dinner, my Book Club, walking around the block (I love walking around the block and being outside and being out in nature).  I feel Joyful in these Me-Time moments. 

My Me-Time can involve putting on my earphones and listening to country music.  I really love country music - this brings me Joy.

My Me-Time is a great time to look at photos of my beautiful family and make Photobooks.  I look making Photobooks, I love finishing a Photobook, I love when the Photobook arrives in the mail and I love looking through my new Photobook. 

My Me-Time involves having baths at night.  

My Me-Time involves looking at Facebook.

My Me-Time involves looking at photos and videos of dogs on Facebook.

My Me-Time sometimes involves eating chocolate at night and regretting it and deciding to stop eating chocolate at night as this does not bring me Joy. 

I want to do what brings me Joy and most importantly to me is making sure that my family are filled with Joy too.  I want my children and my hubby to be happy and Joyful and at peace when they go to sleep – I want them to have Joy each day too.

And yet sometimes in my rush to get into the Me-Time part of my night, I get tired and cranky at my little ones and this can destroy their Joy in those moments, in their moments.  And really my time with them is more important to me than my Me-Time.  My time with them in the time I treasure the most.  My time with them, being present with them, totally present gives me the greatest Joy.  And so perhaps I am too ambitious to try to have Me-Time or so much Me-Time at night and should just grab a slice of Me-Time at another time so that I can be there for my children when they want me most - at night time.  Says one part of me!  The bigger part of me!  And then another part of me calls out and says "what about me?", "you need your time too".  

My Me-Time is a precious treat and definitely a necessity for me, to do some of the things I love to do, and yet I want to balance this or fit this in around my children - making my children, my family is my focus.

Also with my Me-Time I often stay up late, later than I should, to do everything I want to do, and in the doing what I love to do, I definitely experience Joy- even if it means I sometimes/ usually feel tired when I first wake up and promise myself that early nights and more sleep will also bring Joy.