Home-Heart-Mind is the tag line for this blog, and one I came up with quickly, wanting a switch from “Patterns and Crafts” which I didn’t really feel defined luckypennymake well. Immediately I felt like home-heart-mind was somewhat too broad, but I went with it, wanting room to explore and define this blog as I go along.
I began the switch from Typepad to WordPress, and this site’s redesign just under two weeks ago, and I threw myself into it. At the same time I had finally decided to take some steps toward getting Ezra to sleep independently, and hopefully, through the night. This came after nearly a month of really bad sleep, and at a point when I was so exhausted I struggled just to think and eat.
I don’t believe the timing was coincidental. I believe I began both projects, site and sleep, at together because I needed an outlet, something to bury myself in, something to feed my mind, while I dealt with the overwhelming task of changing our sleep situation. In retrospect, I needed to tackle another task that was new and challenging, but was also something I was confident I could figure out one way or another. I needed the “mind” of “home-heart-mind” to counterbalance the tangle of emotions and exhaustion in my heart that, I slowly began to realize, was effecting not just me, but everyone in our home.
Since I wrote the words, “Home-heart-mind” for the first time, it has become almost a mantra for me. I struggle with balance daily; trying to find the right combination to feed the hearts, souls and bellies of not just my children and husband, but myself also. And reminding myself that I need to feed all parts of myself if I’m ever going to achieve it.
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