Showing posts with label self care. Show all posts
Showing posts with label self care. Show all posts

Sunday, March 6, 2016

Self Care for Birthday Gift

After feeling so good after going to the paint and pinot session with my BFF, for my birthday I asked to be enrolled in a 1 day painting class.  I took a day off work to take the class.

One of my friends said "I'm shocked! You NEVER do things without your family. You're such a family girl that I can't believe you're going to take a day off and not spend it with your kiddo and hubs"

Yeah, 6 hours was a bit much for me, but overall it was fun.  I'd do it again, but I prefer the 3 hour classes.

Here's the finished product....


I'd love to find a class that me and kiddo could do together.  I think 6 hours is way too long for her, given that it was a little too long for me, but it's relaxing and would be great momma/daughter time.

We shall see.

Kiddo was impressed and said I did a good job.  I was the baby of the class, so everybody elses looked far better.  I was the newbie and most of the class goes every month.

I felt very welcomed though and felt good when I left.

Wish I would win the lottery, be a stay at home mom and be able to do this more often. I don't want to give up my vacation days for days to myself very often. I prefer to hold those for family time.

That said, it's definitely good to do something just for yourself occasionally, to decompress and just be you.

Thursday, February 18, 2016

Self Care

I'm guilty of not doing self-care

1) Honestly, I love my time with kiddo and treasure my moments and have a hard time spending time away from her

2) It seems like I have so little time

3) I always feel guilty for not being there every non working moment

4) I feel guilty for spending money on myself for things that only benefit me

That said, I know I need "me" time to decompress and take care of myself.

I decided to not feel guilty about it anymore and branch out and do something for myself.

What did I do? Paint and Pinot.  Actually, I skipped the pinot, I wanted my painting to turn out well. My BFF and I went together, had sushi and coke zero and painted pictures of our pups.


Mine is the one on the left. BFF's is the one on the right.

I REALLY enjoyed it. We had so much fun.  I had a hard time convincing myself it was okay to spend $50 on myself for no benefit to my household.  $40 for the painting class, $10 for sushi.  It was worth it though.

As soon as I got home, kiddo said she wants the painting to hang in her room.  I told her she can have it after she cleans up her room.

3 weeks later......

yeah, still waiting.

I'm going to do painting again soon though.