March 2009

You Deserve a Break Today

This is surely an extraordinary time in which we are living. There is bad news coming from every direction, in all areas of our lives and it is often hard for us as women to take a few minutes to escape from all those concerns. Our days are filled with “Mom, what’s for breakfast?” or “Mom, have you seen my…?” or an all time favorite “Hon, where are the car keys?” Then you rush off to work, run errands on your lunch hour and return home only to hear “That again for dinner?” You deserve a break today. Treat yourself to a few of the following ‘sneak a break’ activities-

• Sit down, close your eyes, take a really deep breath and let it out slowly.
   
• Call an old friend and catch up on the news in each other’s lives.
   
• Take a walk, but listen for new sounds and look for things you did not see before.
   
• Try the free make-over at you favorite department store.
   
• Watch your favorite old movie. Cry your eyeballs out, or laugh till your sides hurt.
   
• Peek in on your children after they are asleep and remember when they were babies.
   
• An absolute favorite thing to do especially at the end of a long, hard day is to take a bubble bath with candles all around the bathroom and dare anyone to knock on the door.

Things will still be the same and times will still be tough but you took a break to free your mind, soothe your body and hug your soul. You deserved a break today.