Twomims

Last week I made a pretty dramatic career switch. I went from working roughly 60 hours per week at my job, traveling and working after my kids went to bed at night, to working part time. My new schedule is a measly 20 hours per week from home.

Sounds like a dream, right? What was I to do with the extra 40 hours per week that would now be complete free-time? I’ll tell you exactly what I did, I filled those hours with more stuff. I went running everyday, I baked cookies with my boys, made a lasagna from scratch for dinner one night, ran countless overdue errands. Yes! This was the life. Or was it?

By the end of the week I was just as exhausted as I had been while working full time. So now I am going to make a conscious effort to not make myself so busy, and let some things go undone. Just because I’m not working full time, does not mean that I have to cook elaborate from scratch dinners every night, or have a craft project for my kids everyday when they get home from school. In one week, I am going to Italy for 10 days. Hopefully the simple and relaxing lifestyle of the Italian culture will rub off on me, and show this MIM that it’s ok to slow down.

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