Run, Run as fast as you can........

I use to consider my self an active person. I could run all day with my kids. We played soccer and football. We would box each other and chase each other around. After all that, I would clean house, kids, and make dinner, wash laundry and pretty much take care of everything. Then something happened... I don't know what it was but one day I woke up, went out with the kids and I realized I had absolutely no energy. I had literally ran dry. I drank coffee, cokes, water, even took a vitamin. I felt as if I had aged 10 yrs over night. Here my kids were wanting to play and run and swing and everything in between and I had nothing to give.

As the years have gone by I have decided to pick my playtime such as one would pick their battles. I would play soccer one day and then wait a few days in order to recoup the energy I had lost and we would pick another activity. This was a serious disappointment to me. I was a very active child and teenager. I thought having my kids young I would have energy for years... Hell decades. Sorry to say that is not true. So in short I just want to say to all you moms out there.... " Play with your kids, enjoy them, love them, but have some common sense and rest and take a break every now and again." Your kids can play without you and they will not mind. Promise.