Sometimes, I get tired...

I'm hoping - someday - to get enough done so that I can relax and take some time off

We all need to take time for ourselves and we all get tired. You aren't indestructible. Just remember that....

Karen, this is a great article. Your life sounds very similar to mine. But you are right, sometimes we need to take time for ourselves. I hope that you are having your vacation soon! Mine is next week... officially should start on Friday at 2pm... but they may ask me to work on Saturday (long story and a new position, so I don't think I can say no if I am asked... but so far they haven't asked.) I am so looking forward to being off and having no work and no school for over a week!! I need the break.

Enjoy your break and your holiday!

The Christmas Holidays have been running my mom ragged at her job. Have you thought about maybe getting yourself a massage or pedicure ? pedicures always relax me

For me it's swimming or walking. Both are slow enough to allow you to perform on autopilot, gets plenty of blood to the brain, and reduces stress better than anyothersinglething I know...) I do my mental housekeeping and planning, and escaping all in one fell swoop. No phone, no fam, no bills, no noise... It's kinda like how I picture heaven?...
Awesome.
Wilka

I wouldn't make it without my husband either.

Relax? Enjoy things? Not until after the holidays! LOL I, too, have been pulled in a million directions at one time since Thanksgiving. Between me trying to get all my stuff ready for Christmas, stuff shipped out (not yet completed either!), wrapped, bake cookies, the usual daily chores of dishes, laundry, etc., making Christmas ornaments for the kids on my bus for their treat bags that I will be handing out Friday, driving the bus, my best friend going nuts wanting me to take her here and there to get the stuff she needs for a cookie bake and ornament making session this Saturday, me having to teach her how to bake cookies, my daughter and situation, my "fat doctor" wanting to wire my jaw shut so I can't eat (NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!!!) so I will lose weight so he has me taking 1 1/2 diet pills a day and now I can't sleep and I am afraid to try the sleeping pills he prescribed simply because I do not know how they will affect my driving first thing in the morning and I have to wait until the weekend to find out so I haven't had more than a few hours of sleep every night since about Tuesday of last week, and trying to get a monitor so I can get a computer ready for two of the kids on my bus for a Christmas surprise for them by this weekend (I just got the monitor tonight so I will be working on the computer tomorrow), making ornaments for me, not being able to decorate this year for lack of room...stress? What stress? I don't have a clue what you are talking about! LOL

I think it is time for a nice long nap after a nice long soak in a super hot tub of bubbles!

I'm taking time off after Christmas, but right now I'm listening to Josh Groban's Noel album I highly suggest it. I listen to music every day to relax.

I do not see much resting for me until after the holidays.
It is a nice idea & I would love to.
Things do not seem like they are slowing down for me lately.
Sometimes, most times, I get tired too.

Somedays I am actually looking for something to do! I stay home with the kids all day and I am very tired! I just give my husband the "look" and he takes over! I have to learn to let him do that more often and the world won't fall apart if he does!!

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Karen, I'm with you in that boat. I am hoping to leave work on Friday...and not return until January 2.
There is a chance I may be working a couple days while I am "on vacation," but I am going to resist!

Karen,
I think we all feel like that sometimes. It can be difficult to find time for ourselves with todays fast paced world. But, It is so very important to not only take time for ourselves but we have to MAKE time for ourselves.

I have always been the kind of person who never said "No". I never took time for myself until lately. Last November, I got depressed. I had never been depressed in my life and I did not know what was wrong with me. I only knew that I was tired. So very tired. I did not have the strength to do anything. It finally reached the point that I did not care if I done anything or not. This was not me.

I would lay on the couch and cry because I did had work to do. Then I would cry because I had no energy to get up and do anything.

I always thought that when someone was depressed, they could get over it if they made themselves. I soon learned that this was not true. I finally ask for help in April. It was the hardest thing I think I have ever done. I had to admit that I could not do everything. I had to learn to say "no" sometimes.

We are not made to do everything. If we were, God would have put us on earth one at a time. But he did not do that. He put a lot of us here at once so we could help each other.

Take time for yourself and enjoy your husband and your life because you are special. You deserve as much as you have been giving to others. Good luck

Wow! That was a long comment. I did not mean to preach to you. Sorry

Hope you have a wonderful Christmas!

I feel this way alot...

Karen,
I hope you are all relaxed and enjoying life and your husband today.
Merry Christmas!

We're supposed to RELAX and enjoy ourselves? The last time I did this, was before my kids. I figure when they're off to college, I'll get to relax and enjoy myself. :P