Picture this: your house is clean, the living room is tidy (no toys underfoot), and there’s food in the crockpot for supper. The kids are at school, playing outside, making up a game in their rooms, or napping.
You have quiet. Peace. You’ve just sat down with a cup of coffee and your latest book or craft project to enjoy an hour or so to yourself.
How is this different from your reality?
Is this a fairy tale, a one day scenario? A “when all the kids are old enough to be in school” hope? A plan eagerly awaited but put off till they’re grown and out of the house?
You don’t have to wait that long.
You shouldn’t wait that long.
As an introverted mom, you can’t wait that long.
You need an unbusy life, and you need it now.
Your current reality
You might have multiple children in the house, despite the ones who’re at school, because you have 3 kids (give or take). There’s always a baby, toddler, or preschooler claiming your attention, or needing diaper changes/bathroom wipes.
You enjoy saying good-bye to your older ones as they run out the door, imagining a little quiet with fewer people in the house.
But somehow, it doesn’t work that way. Whatever you were working on, the little one(s) managed to double the time it took.
By the time it’s 3pm you’re more than ready to have the big kids back so they can entertain the baby while you get supper.
Then your husband gets home, and you’re too tired from your day to fully listen to his day.
You were made for more.
Is this really what you want?
Is this how you want to spend your next years? Waiting for the baby to grow up so you can have your day back?
(And if you home educate, you don’t get your day back – ever.)
You had dreams of how motherhood and staying home would look, and this is not the way it was supposed to go.
Yes, some of your pre-kid ideas were unrealistic, dictated by inexperience and lack of knowledge of child-rearing. But you’ve had several kids since then; you know what is and isn’t possible.
(8 hours of sleep with a newborn? Forget it. Never a quiet moment? That, you can have.)
It’s these harried, hurried lifestyles that are burning us out. It’s time to reclaim your life, stop the madness, and actually enjoy the day-to-day reality of parenting your multiple children.
Join me in seeking a new way to live – a way that gifts you more than just pockets and snatches of time to yourself.
A life in which your introverted soul can relax, take a deep breath, and fully open up. One where your bucket is filled – every day – by something you enjoy, in peace and quiet.
You were made for more. As introverts, we cannot fully function in the more unless we have sufficient quiet in the now.
Savor an unbusy life.
Let’s make it happen for you, today.
