Healthy Hale's Day #1

Well it's the new year and time for new year resolutions. I've really never been a fan...because I never keep them (those that do, rock on). In my past post, we have made some big changes in our lives to promote healthy living...So this new year the Hale's continue our progress of healthiness one day at a time.
Healthiness to us means more than just physically (while that is a HUGE part of it also). It includes emotionally, mentally and spiritually. I want to take these things and break them down into some ways that we are getting healthier. I would like to say it will be daily, but while my house is a disaster and packing  boxes is at the forefront of my mind I'm not making that commitment yet...Maybe come February when things settle down a little bit I will!
SO as was stated in the past post, I resigned from my job teaching 2nd grade. While my class sits back in our classroom today for the first time and I'm not there... there's a big ache in my heart. I can start to wonder and worry about how they will do and how their new transition will be. I wonder how this can be healthier...but then I look at my outlook on life. Here's a little exercise I did..thoughts and words to describe me as:

My life; full time mommie, wife and teacher...
overwhelmed, frustrated, busy, impacting kids, tired, enjoy the adult interaction, what's next on my list to do, how am I going to get him/her up to par, dramatic, challenged professionally,impatient,  focused on the task at hand.

My life: full time mommie and wife...
still a little overwhelmed (with boxes, packing and getting the house on the market) . making meals, enjoying meals together, no adult interaction until daddy gets home , pandora playing, kitchen clean (as it can be), play room destroyed with toys (LOVE it). coffee at all hours of the day, sweet kisses and hugs, screaming baby, poopy messes, wet diapers, constant redirection.

SO as I read back over on how i described my life, the positive and negative of both I realized something...I'm a completely different person working as a teacher and working as a mommie. I LOVED teaching. I love having the influence on kids/ interacting with them. I loved seeing those light bulbs go off and have them say "I get it". It was a very rewarding job. I am realizing that I wasn't healthy myself. I poured everything into my job and less into those I love at home. I just couldn't do it all.

SO my "healthy" point is this...what in your life, (may not be as drastic as a resigning from your job) can you trim away to enjoy some other things, that you are letting slip away. It could be saying "yes" to too much, spending too much money on something or investing too much time in something that really has no eternal impact. What can you trim away to make a healthier you?

I think this is why I can't get anything done...:) 

Now off for a physical work out, (dang 30-day shred),  Meredith