{"id":29,"date":"2012-08-27T14:19:21","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T14:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/?p=29"},"modified":"2013-02-06T12:01:56","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T19:01:56","slug":"monday-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"On becoming magical…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I took some time to reflect this week-end on how I can\u00a0improve my stay at home momness.\u00a0 I feel like despite my best effort, I’m\u00a0just not getting it right.\u00a0 What ELSE should I be doing in order to be a success here?\u00a0 So…I\u00a0came up with the following list (best few.\u00a0 The list is actually huge but I need to take baby steps and all that jazz):<\/p>\n

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  1. Learn how to run errands that don’t cost money.\u00a0 Why do all errands cost money? Where are all the FREE\u00a0errands?!\u00a0 Or at least the inexpensive errands?\u00a0 Is this why stay at home moms start clipping coupons?\u00a0 It’s hard to say.\u00a0 This requires more observation. But for now the gist here is that I need to find something to do that occupies my time and doesn’t cost money.<\/li>\n
  2. Along those lines, the one thing I can do (besides volunteering) that doesn’t cost money is exercise.\u00a0 I purport that the thinnest people I know are stay at home moms.\u00a0 That’s because they actually have TIME to exercise.\u00a0 Working moms\u00a0are stressed and overweight because they’ve gotta do everything the stay at home moms do, but squeeze it all in and around a full work-day.\u00a0 So something has to fall by the wayside and that includes exercise and time spent on self.\u00a0 So, I’m getting back on track with the exercise scene.\u00a0 But first and foremost:\u00a0I have to get exercise clothes that don’t smell like I exercised in them.\u00a0 Or look like I exercised in them.\u00a0 How\u00a0do all these stay at home moms bee-bop into the school office in the a.m.\u00a0wearing exercise togs that don’t look or smell like they’ve been exercised in?!\u00a0 Or they bee-bop into the school\u00a0office in the afternoon.\u00a0 Same deal.\u00a0 Is it the clothes themselves that have magical powers?\u00a0 Or perhaps it’s the women\u00a0who are magic?? (am\u00a0now adding “become magical” to the list of things to work on).\u00a0 Regardless, I need to do better here because\u00a0I can’t go anywhere with my exercise clothes on (well, except to exercise by myself in my basement – or to my\u00a0driveway to wait for the carpool).<\/li>\n
  3. I need to learn how to take empty hours from the morning and apply them to the afternoon.\u00a0\u00a0 All heck breaks loose in the afternoon.\u00a0 Everyone has to be everywhere all the time after 3 p.m.\u00a0 Or is it that I have to learn how to bifurcate?\u00a0 Or is it replicate??\u00a0 Either way, I need to uncover how to achieve a balance of activities\u00a0in my day.\u00a0 Can I start attending appointments in the morning on behalf of my children?\u00a0 That might free up some of my time in the afternoon.\u00a0 Say for example I could stand-in for my daughter on her 10-year-well-visit at 10a.m.\u00a0\u00a0Hi doctor, I’m filling in\u00a0for my 10-year-old today.\u00a0\u00a0I’ve weighed and measured her at home and here are the stats.\u00a0 I’ll pee into a cup with her name on it.\u00a0 (we’ve got the same genes and eat the same stuff, so the results should be pretty similar, right?)\u00a0 Yes, she wears her\u00a0helmet when she bike rides and she wants to be a\u00a0vet when she grows up.\u00a0 You can check\u00a0my spine for scoliosis.\u00a0 Just don’t\u00a0peek into my underwear, that creeps me out.\u00a0\u00a0I’ll bring the sticker home to her and tell her she did a good job.\u00a0 Howz about a tootsie roll for me?!<\/li>\n
  4. Learn Spanish.\u00a0 Now you’re wondering to yourself why on earth I need to learn Spanish.\u00a0 There’s a method to the madness here that I will shortly reveal and you will be astounded.\u00a0 Remember the comment above about doing stuff that doesn’t cost money?\u00a0 Well, it occurred to me that the library was a great place to start.\u00a0 I should start reading again for pleasure.\u00a0 Which is something that has fallen by the wayside in recent years.\u00a0 But what to start with?\u00a0 Why the ever-popular and much-discussed-among-the-stay-at-home-crowd “50 Shades of Grey.”\u00a0 In fact, I\u00a0believe this to be\u00a0required reading and I’m very late completing my assignment.\u00a0 The only problem is that while the library has\u00a074 copies, 0 are available and\u00a0there are 123 patrons on the waiting list.\u00a0 I will never get to read this book.\u00a0 Unless…wait! There is one copy of \u00a0Cincuenta Sombras de Grey and it’s available!\u00a0 Ol\u00e9!!!<\/li>\n
  5. \u00a0Become magical (I told you I was adding this,\u00a0don’t act so surprised).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I took some time to reflect this week-end on how I can\u00a0improve my stay at home momness.\u00a0 I feel like despite my best effort, I’m\u00a0just not getting it right.\u00a0 What ELSE should I be doing in order to be a success here?\u00a0 So…I\u00a0came up with the following list (best few.\u00a0 The list is actually huge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":689,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}