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Happy Sunday.

Despite my foolish behavior the scale isn’t screaming at me…. I want to be mad at myself but I’m trying to offer Mehr something I’ve struggled with my whole life….grace. I tend to offer it to everyone else… time to give a little to myself.

Groceries are needed and instacart to the rescue. I love shopping in person but everyone is home, we have a birthday party to go to and just a lot of stuff. So I’ll pay a little more and not impulse buy any candles.

I decided to throw my afternoon coffee back into the mix but with rules….. the first rule is that it’s now a half size. That alone controls the damage.

We make our coffees and it’s time for a preschoolers birthday party. We make it late because why be anywhere on time. Fortunately it’s a playground birthday party. I was so excited to see the food. Fruits and veggies, lunch meat and cheese, Antipasto, and something I don’t ever remember having before…Cuban sandwiches…. which were a great but dangerous thing…

I didn’t eat any of the birthday cake. I was actually really proud of that. Cake is a weird food for me. It’s one of the only things I want to eat even if I don’t like it.

We were supposed to visit an elderly relative but my kids got absolutely covered in a science experiment….”snow” made with shaving cream and baking soda….so we needed to go home.

We got home and showered the kids. After I ran to go pick up my curbside orders.

I prepped dinner while putting groceries away. I made sausage peppers and onions with extra prepped veggies for later in the week. While it was cooking I noticed my 6 year old was not looking so hot. He suddenly went from crazy energetic kid at the party to quiet pale and hot complaining of a headache.

After dinner he went off to bed by 730pm.

I was so thankful for the “snow” . Our elderly almost 85 year old relative did not need whatever he had.

I knew that my plans for the week were derailing with a sick kid. Flexibility will need to be a huge part of my journey.