A perspective shifts... for tonight

Tonight I was making formula for Jillian and lamenting that I got nothing done today. Yes I did spend time on Facebook and Pinterest today... but did I really get nothing done? Then I stopped and thought about my day. What had I done?

• I went to Target and got stuff for home and work
• Jilli and I spent around an hour at Walgreens because suddenly the state did not remember that we no longer have Cigna insurance (which ended in July, and I called the state about it before it happened and have picked up multiple prescriptions for Jilli since it happened) It took an hour to get this all sorted out (to no fault of Walgreens) Jillian was an amazingly good girl during this time. She enjoyed taking selfies on my phone (I have about 20 pics of Jillian's forehead) 
• I did a load of laundry
• I unloaded and reloaded the dishwasher... and started it :)
• I curled up on the couch and cuddled with my little girl and watched her favorite show
• I worked on Jillian's speech homework with her
• I made dinner (and ate it)
• I worked on some stuff for work (school starts soon, I can't help it)
• I picked up the bathroom
• I got Jillian dressed 
• I changed multiple diapers today (including a poop one... yeah for poop coming out sometimes!)
• I filled Jillian's feeding pump at 2am (Brent did 6am), 10am, 2pm, and shut it off at 3pm.
• I gave her water flushes into her J port multiple times today
• I give her medications multiple times today
• I made formula

So even though  I had to step over toys to get to my lap top to write this... I did still do something today. No, I did not get a room organized like I wanted. Or move my office stuff from the guest room to Dan's old room, no, but I did get stuff done. I need to give myself a little slack sometimes. I think that it is only a productive day if I run at full steam all day, but I need to give myself credit for everything I do, day in and day out. I think it is an American thing. We don't seam to give ourselves the credit we deserve for doing the little things. It is very much a society problem. If you are not going all the time you are viewed as lazy. There does not seam to be a middle ground any more. As a society we have forgotten the 7th day.. Sabbath... thinking that we don't need it! So, for tonight, I am going to cut myself some slack for only accomplishing that list. Yea, I still have hundreds of things to do, but it is ok, I deserve some time to chill too! :)

I dare you to do the same thing too!



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