Swollen glands, dull headache, general “yuckiness”.  Today I stayed home sick from work. Being the type of person I am, I just hate doing this.  But today was a day where I just needed to rest and pull inward. 

Eli and I have been super busy lately, and we are starting to hit that point in our health, in our adoption journey, in our social calendar, in our work calendar that we just need to take some time to pull inward. To go a little insular.  The crazy thing about self-care is what makes it so difficult is that the world around you keeps turning.  Work doesn’t slow down.  The holidays approach.  The day-to-day demands are still there.  However, some demands just can’t be put on hold.  In my under the weather state, a recent update has bumped building a third bedroom up to the very top of the priority list. And we’re hoping we can get it done in just a few weeks. Don’t get any ideas; it won’t be full yet, but our hope is that by building it we will get to that point.  

So as we enter the craziness of cold and flu season, the bustling of the holidays, and now the building of a bedroom to hopefully help to build our family, we pull inward.  We go a little insular.  And we take care of ourselves because the simplexity of building our family is pretty exciting, very emotional, and can sometimes make us feel just a little under the weather.

~Chelsea