When I think about the choice that I made to have a child I did not think about the possibility of twins. When I had my twins I did not think that eventually I would be raising them on my own. I do however, remember struggling with what people thought was age appropriate for conversations that came up when they were little.
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There are some people who put a lot of effort into things like sports, art, music and other things that outwardly show an individual effort to make the team or experience better. Then there are posers. People who wear the gear and practice the vernacular that do not really have any natural talent nor do they put in any effort to become proficient. I believe that there can be posers at life. People that go through life aspiring to have things that they think they want through idea imposed on them by what people -they find -interesting or popular tell them what they should believe is right or positive.
I had given in to the idea that how I was raising my girls was wrong, stopped trusting my gut and became a life poser. When I realized I was living my life to make people that really did not matter to me happy. I had to so something about it. So, I have torn down every idea of what I thought I was supposed to be as a mother, lover, friend, partner, woman and I have reclaimed my life. The decisions I have made have come with their fair share growing pains that I feel have made myself and my family all stronger in our own ways.
I decided to start by relinquished responsibility for things I felt were no longer necessary for me to have a part in PERIOD. I am talking about the shit that people I love try to dump on me because it’s #obligationthroughfamiliarity.
The second thing I did was move to a place that I thought would be better for my mental health. I did not even plan the move out things just fell into place once I had made the decision. The whole process took a month or two. I knew that the ease of how things happened was not for nothing. I am meant to be where I am I just still could not get things to fell right. I realized I had lost myself. It was not until I completely derailed from “THE PLAN” and quit my federal job, that I was able to see I had gotten so wrapped up in trying to things the “right way” that i didn’t think about the consequences it would have on my family.
Then I experienced some time after I quit my job, when I looked inward, stumbling across all the little memories of the past couple years. Reliving, in microseconds, every cringy memory and skimming the happy ones. I was self punishing and finding reasons to doubt decisions and focusing on how to make them seem like bad decisions. As if I could have known how things would turn out. How dumb is that? I tell people who bring up old shit in arguments that I can’t stand that. For the simple fact that I can not retroactively fix what I didn’t know I was doing wrong. Yet, here I was bringing up old shit, to myself, in my own head.
I had to find something to keep me moving forward. So the idea to do 30 day challenges was to pick things that I thought seemed easy but were actually hard for me to do. Anything that requires more than five min of my attention is already asking a lot when I am scatterbrained. I am only in the first week of these challenges and the drawing challenge that has had me irritated the most. I have found myself getting mad at the way the drawings turn out and a couple times, I wanted to ask one of the twins to do the drawing for me. This was a huge eye opener for me. Why was I so afraid of failing even when there wasn’t anything to fail at? Yep, I still don’t know. Point is, I am accepting, moving forward and living through these EMOTIONAL moments instead of posing.
I am not the type of mother to just put the name on and not put in the work. So being a poser at motherhood is NOT an option. I share so many emotional moments with my teenage daughters. I always try to set a positive, yet, real example for my girls. Sometimes that means crying through some real life shit with them.
In busy life, I tend to put word bandaids instead of just listening and being there emotionally for my girls. I have made it a point this year to just take each moment with them as a new opportunity to see into my emotional past or discover something completely new about myself and them! I really like the outcome of what work I am putting into my life right now. So, I will keep going, embrace any new wisdom that Goddess would bless me with and try not end up a poser at life.
Vehicle
The twins are off to school and I am doing the drawing challenge in the quiet of my place.
As I drew my vehicle, my mind wandered to how cool it would be to have my old 53 Chevy again. I am not very good at drawing things in their proper dimensions but I like the way my car turned put just the same.
This challenge had a really calming effect on me.
Today was the twins first day back at school. So that means I walked and walked and now I am sitting resting while catching up on my blog.
This walking challenge has made me give myself time being in my mind and active while not putting any pressure on myself. I love it. I’m tired of things that make me feel stressed out IN ANY WAY. That just means this may just become a daily habit…hmmmm
I can not see the sunset tonight because I’m with my twins having meatloaf for dinner to celebrate a great first day at school. So I ran to the window as the sun was going down and took a picture while sunset was happening.
After I took the picture I laughed because now I will always remember this awesome day with this picture of an almost sunset.
I think I will have to frame this one.
Pirate
Today was a huge step for me I drew my pirate from scratch. No prompts, not help! I am super happy with the way he turned out because he’s straight from my imagination.
Here he is with treasure under his arm. Awww I feel so happy with this little accomplishment that it takes away from the tension I had earlier today. I now am filled with a new emotion to take the place of that anxiety. I think I will stare at my pirate and swim in this good feeling.
Back to school WITCHES!!!
Today was a pretty hectic day but since I’m on my shit so hard this year, I had everything under control.
The twins walked with me today so I thought I’d share it.
I had to take a picture of a quote. So I took a screen shot of something I truly believe in….not rick and morty (I’m not that cool) but the meaning behind the quote.
In recent conversations with my mom, I noticed she’s been quoting me to myself. We laugh everytime I say “oooh who said that” and her response is “you don’t remember saying that when you were a kid!?”
I guess it is not a new idea for me and it’s nice to hear I’ve always been an advocate for living my life. Go out and live!!! So many people I know are itching for change. My advice, change😁 you will be so much happier. Even if it is harder.
So much can happen when you push past fear.
Lightening
I dont have fancy markers or pens so I grabbed what I have available and get to it. This is what I came up with and I actually like it.
I feel really proud of my attempt to draw lightening here. I wanted to try to different ways so I did one side with an outline and one without. I did one with a vibrant mix of color and tho opposite like a dark sky. I like both. In fact, I like that I mixed the two.
Anyone else try this/trying this today?
Today I had to take a picture of a swirl…The only swirl I could come up with was a toilet swirl. Funny thing is, I plan on putting all the pictures I take on this journey in a book for my own personal enjoyment. When people flip through this toilet will forever be a question in their minds. Why? Why was there a toilet on page 3?
**update** I was cooking and saw another swirl!!!! So I made that my cover for today lol still keeping the toilet for the project but I just wanted to show I saw another swirl
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