Today was a long, busy, stressful day, and it was a Monday which always feels a little more stressful than the rest of the days of the week for some reason\u2026perhaps that\u2019s because we put everything out of our minds in order to enjoy our weekends and then Monday morning we are forced to deal with all of it again.\u00a0 Beyond the stress of having a million things to get done I spent the day watching for my email from daughter (who is out serving a mission for our church) to come through as Monday is the only day she is allowed to send her weekly update to us. The day went on and on and no email came through.\u00a0 Normally they email in the morning so as the day went on and nothing came….talk about stress for a mother! When you only get one email a week to begin with and then that email doesn\u2019t come you have to do everything you can to not let your mind run wild with what could have gone wrong.\u00a0 I tried using all the positive talk I could on myself, saying everything was surely okay, and that worked until nighttime came and still no email was there.<\/p>\n
Tired, and stressed out, I decided to call my Dad. \u00a0Sometimes a girl just needs her Dad, ya know?\u00a0 \u00a0I poured out my heart to my Dad and dumped all my worries of the day on him and he chuckled calmly and said, \u201cGo to bed and get a good night\u2019s sleep, tomorrow will be better.\u201d<\/strong><\/span> (Dang I love my Dad!)\u00a0 Such a perfect thing to say to me at that moment. Seriously love my Dad.\u00a0 I think Dad\u2019s have a special ability for making you feel safe and secure.\u00a0 They can give you the confidence that all will be okay (all the Dad’s out there reading this should remember that influence they have on their kids…we need our Dad’s!)<\/p>\n Before I head to bed tonight I decided to reach out to another mother who has a daughter serving in the same area to see if she knew if our girls were okay. She offered to contact a friend she has in the area to at least find out that the girls were safe (thank you!!!). Apparently they had been traveling today and hadn\u2019t gotten back in time to get to a place they could email so they would be allowed to email us tomorrow instead\u2026thank heavens!<\/p>\n I guess if I have any message to share with all of you today it is this: When you get to the end of a tough day and you\u2019re struggling to hang on, take my Dad\u2019s advice:\u00a0 \u201cGo to bed and get a good night\u2019s sleep, tomorrow will be better.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Tomorrow will be better for sure!\u00a0 Have a great day everyone!<\/p>\n ~Amy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today was a long, busy, stressful day, and it was a Monday which always feels a little more stressful than the rest of the days of the week for some reason\u2026perhaps that\u2019s because we put everything out of our minds in order to enjoy our weekends and then Monday morning we are forced to deal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[387,174,101,6062,6058,3090,6061,2557,1223,1392,1261,83,996,93,3089,6055,6056,55,180,1163,3369,889,35,1360,3661,351,5907,138,1746,6060,153,1668,1546,4500,3380,112,145,5841,275,460,1187,6059,948,1188,6057,133,5983,1711,173],"class_list":["post-5444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-advice","tag-anxiety","tag-ashley","tag-be-okay","tag-busy-tired","tag-companion","tag-confidences","tag-dad","tag-deal","tag-depressed","tag-email","tag-experience","tag-father","tag-fear","tag-gerald-rees","tag-go-to-bed","tag-good-nights-sleep","tag-happiness","tag-happy","tag-heaven","tag-lds-mission","tag-long","tag-love","tag-message","tag-million","tag-missionary","tag-monday","tag-mother","tag-optimistic","tag-phone-call","tag-positive","tag-sad","tag-safe","tag-secure","tag-self-talk","tag-self-improvement","tag-service","tag-serving","tag-stress","tag-stressful","tag-tasks","tag-things-to-get-done","tag-to-do","tag-tomorrow","tag-tomorrow-will-be-better","tag-weekend","tag-worn-out","tag-worries","tag-worry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5444"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5450,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5444\/revisions\/5450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}