Day 24--I'm done!

Well, I'm tired of this 30 day blog challenge.  I've hit the point where everything left on the challenge sounds not that thrilling to write about, so I'm done.  Sorry if you wanted to hear about anything left of the list.

I will write though today about a "break through" I have been having this past week.  You know (because I just wrote about it)  how I had gallbladder surgery almost a week ago?  Well, I have been trying really hard to just TAKE CARE OF MYSELF this week.

Now, as I am a woman, you should realize that is pretty amazing actually.  I mean really, what woman do you know who takes care of herself?  It's usually take care of everyone else, right?  But this week I've tried really hard to just take it easy and take care of me, and no one else.

• I am not getting up in the morning with the boys to make either their lunch or their breakfasts (I normally make their lunches one day, breakfast the next.) 
• I have not made dinner (But a huge thank you from the boys who would have had to cook for themselves to everyone else who has made dinner for us!) 
• I had lounged around.  I have watched a lot of TV (I told my hubby I was maybe getting addicted to BYU Tv...but surely that's better than some of the other stuff on TV, right?)
• I have tried really hard not to go out of the house (except for going to get the mail.)

 I have tried hard to take care of me, and I think that's been a really good thing.  I feel pretty healthy, so far there's been no feeling like I've "overdone it" as I try to get back into doing things too soon.  I actually feel as if my batteries have somewhat been "recharged" taking this bit of a break. 

One of the things that I think has been most energizing has been the feeling that it's ok to just take care of myself, I am worth it.  Maybe that's because so often I personally put what everyone else thinks and feels and wants ahead of my own personal self. I feel so obligated to do everything I think I'm supposed to for everyone else and feel guilty if I'm not taking care of that.  But, it's ok to take care of me.  It's ok to let others take care of me.  It's ok.  I am worth it.

I like that feeling!