The last several weeks have been such a whirlwind for me. I was running around like crazy trying to prepare everything for my daughter to get home, and then there was all the emotion that surrounded her actually getting home, followed by hosting a huge open house event for everyone to welcome her back. I was going, going, going so much that when all the craziness was finished I felt like I had been run over by a semi-truck. I felt completely exhausted\u2026both physically and emotionally\u2026and that\u2019s when I realized just how much I needed to sit back, relax, and remember what it feels like to just breathe\u2026<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve never been good at taking time to sit back and relax. Maybe that comes from having been a single mom for so many years where taking time to relax just wasn\u2019t an option. After so many years, I think going a million miles an hour simply became a habit. Then, by the time I got married again and had someone to help me shoulder the burdens it was too late, the habit had already been engrained into who I was. And so my life continued to consist of going from one major undertaking to another with little to no time in between.<\/p>\n
But by the end of this last\u00a0week, more than ever before, I\u00a0reached\u00a0a point where I realized just how badly I needed to truly take a little time to just relax\u2026and remember what it feels like to just breathe\u2026<\/p>\n
That is why I\u00a0decided to take\u00a0the next four weeks off of my regular work to spend\u00a0some quality time with my family before\u00a0my kids move out to college again and\u00a0to\u00a0give myself some much needed relaxation time.\u00a0 Just as an fyi I will still continue to post my daily blogs\u00a0during my time-off\u00a0because after six years of never missing a day I am not about to start missing one now! But other than that I don\u2019t intend to do any normal work at all, which for me will be a first in life\u2026but admittedly, it is going to be\u00a0a much needed first indeed.<\/p>\n
I think all of us reach a point when we need to be willing to step away from things and relax. And I believe that doing so allows us to clear our minds and get a clearer perspective on where we want our futures to take us. As the great Leonardo Da Vinci once said: \u201cEvery now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer.\u201d \u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Summer is coming to an end all too soon so\u00a0try and find time you can also\u00a0find time\u00a0to relax and allow yourself to remember what it feels like to just breathe\u2026even if its just for a weekend…we all need it!<\/p>\n ~Amy Rees Anderson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The last several weeks have been such a whirlwind for me. I was running around like crazy trying to prepare everything for my daughter to get home, and then there was all the emotion that surrounded her actually getting home, followed by hosting a huge open house event for everyone to welcome her back. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6781,"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":[10448,395,1327,1308,10449,1145,5406,551,714,10437,3104,10442,972,51,10445,7,364,10434,3728,463,324,10432,10450,35,10443,2972,10446,10447,10444,10439,7850,134,10436,123,949,4599,854,10451,1122,264,10435,10440,440,10433,456,3392,10438,1898,10452,1190,98,78,3491,1247,10441,192,9762,5983],"class_list":["post-7078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-a-first","tag-amy-rees-anderson","tag-ashley-lewis","tag-breathe","tag-clear-our-mind","tag-college","tag-craziness","tag-daughter","tag-emotion","tag-emotionally-exhausted","tag-empty-nester","tag-engrained","tag-exhausted","tag-family","tag-four-weeks","tag-future","tag-goal","tag-going","tag-habit","tag-home","tag-judgment","tag-just-breathe","tag-leonardo-da-vinci","tag-love","tag-major-undertaking","tag-married","tag-miss-a-day","tag-much-needed","tag-no-time","tag-not-an-option","tag-open-house","tag-perspective","tag-physically-exhausted","tag-priorities","tag-priority","tag-quality-time","tag-relax","tag-relaxation","tag-remember","tag-rollin","tag-semi","tag-shoulder-the-burdens","tag-simplify","tag-simply","tag-single-mom","tag-single-mother","tag-sit-back","tag-skill","tag-surer","tag-take-time","tag-talent","tag-time","tag-time-off","tag-tired","tag-too-late","tag-vacation","tag-what-lies-ahead","tag-worn-out"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7078","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=7078"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7087,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7078\/revisions\/7087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}