You know your a mom when staying in bed until 8am feels like winning the lottery. My 3 year old sleeps late usually, but not the little guy. Between staying up later than usually thanks to his late nap and the time change he slept late.

Today was weigh in day for my diet bet. You officially weigh in once a month but can do a weekly accountability weigh in. I did it because I need the accountability. I was glad you gave gotten back to just a few ounces above my last weigh in before my cheat day became a cheat week.

After I weighed in I got my family their version of morning coffee, my oldest loves teas, my 3 year old loves strawberry milk, and my husband just drinks water. I had my coffee, it had done no harm the day before so I made a cup. As I’ve said before I love my coffee like a dessert. I recently found pumpkin pie extract at the store in the baking isle. Total game changer. That mixed with half and half and stevia is really good. It’s not just like my old coffee, nothing like it actually. But it’s good and I had to learn to like it a different way.

I probably got myself put together the fastest I have all week. After I made my coffee I got dressed, brushed mtg hair and did some make up. This may not be a big deal to some people but to me as a mom of small kids on a snow day kids a huge deal.

The day went on as usual for the most part. I did catch up on This is Us while my husband occupied the kids. Love that show! I got a turkey going in the oven (love 59 cent a pound turkeys thank you Market Basket) a whole chicken in the crockpot (thank you Stop and Shop for 69 cent a pound while chickens). I was going to do the turkey the day before but was worried about having a half cooked turkey if we lost power.

I fortunately was finally feeling moor energetic. After getting off track it takes a couple days for my energy levels to start to pick up again. The kids were happy with Dad so I decided to use my energy to finish the clean up from the snow. I wanted to exercise and figured this took care of a need and a want. I was surprised how much I was able to do. I stopped when finished not when tired. That was huge fur me.

The rest of my day was pretty typical. I badly wanted something sweet in the evening. It wasn’t pretty but I made something that tasted like peanut butter cheesecake. I’ll spare you the visual, like I said it wasn’t pretty.

As I continue my 30 days I hope to expand my definition of self care and start to think outside the box a bit.