A Window to Insanity: Tips for Staying Sane

The last couple of days I have been plagued with migraine headaches which have impacted my ability to write, think, or read, of course also limiting my ability to blog.  These headaches, born of a new diet, or rather reset, are finally subsiding, although I am still feeling rather exhausted.  In addition, the reset (Beachbody's Ultimate Reset) that I have embarked on is a miserable concoction of sprouts and seaweed (okay, there is more to it than that but I swear that is all I feel like I am eating).  While I swear I am downing sludge scooped from atop the ocean water; a mixture of salty algae, seaweed, slime, and smelly scum, I pray that it will end up making a difference and helping me to start losing a few pounds.  Regardless, my poor kids are dealing with a very irritable mom!  The more I force the food I hate down my throat, the more I crave real food (meaning junk food) and the worse my mood becomes.  I must admit that due to the severity of the heada...

I have to say that today was a great day!  Not because we did anything exceptionally amazing but because the kids behaved most of the day and kept themselves occupied with playing that did not involve fighting, destroying anything or getting into things that are off limits.  It is quite the rare occasion when we have a day at home that is semi peaceful and the house remains intact!  You know that you are a parent when you find yourself deeply gratified and overjoyed by the simple pleasure of having a day that is not spent battling with your children and where everything in your house, including pens and paper remain undisturbed.  Days like today remind me of weather and how a thin ray of light seeping through a dull grey forest of clouds having plagued the landscape with utter dreary, weighing down even the foliage with the dense, drab staleness that comes from a colorless sky can change the outlook or course of a day by simply appearing.  For, just when the ver...

Today has been one of those days where I had to stop myself a few times and gauge my own sanity (okay, most days are like this in the life of a mother!).  I have only just sat down after an exhausting day of slaving to others, my eyelids are dragging shut on me and the throbbing in my feet feels like a full scale orchestra has struck up a deep reverberating ballad in them, yet I am determined to write a quick tip that came to me earlier as I was driving to the garbage dump and pondering the many intricacies of life, mainly my own.  As I have reflected many times over the years (and yet still get surprised by the fluidity in which this happens) being a mom and wife brings with it so many unique opportunities to dance through the rainbow, brilliant colors emanating emotions and moods, while the dance steps swing from the tango to the waltz in less than a minute and display as bright bold or pastel hues which color the landscape of life.  Today I have painted a brilliant col...

This blog I dedicate to busy moms who feel their toes perched precariously on the ledge of their own sanity, the soft breeze playing secretly against the bottom of their toes as if begging for them to take a step forward and dance on the clouds of insanity.  As a mother to 6 ambitious little ones and a full time student seeking my PhD and also a wife and breadwinner I can honestly say I live my life on the edge and the soft tickle beneath my toes has become, at times, a grating so ominous that it tugs my feet a little further over the cliff.  It is times like these that I seek solace among my tears and feast on quotes of those who have gone before me and made it through all the ups and downs and highs and lows of parenting.  The point of this blog is to provide daily tips or quotes that help keep me moving even when the tide of life tries its best to tug me down and lay a wet and salty balm upon my furrowed brow, eclipsing me with the lovely shade of darkness that settles...