Is Your Morning As Bad As Mine? Tips To Get Your Mornings Off To A Great Start

It’s a couple of weeks into the New Year and I know many of us have set some short and long term goals to accomplish.  A couple popular ones are to lose weight, manage debt or get a better job.  We all have our lists and one of my goals that I would like to share with you is having a better morning routine.  With seven year old twins, mornings can be quite hectic, loud, grumpy and irritable.  Getting the kids up for school is like trying to wake the dead, and then, when they are finally up you have to guide their zombie like bodies to the bathroom to get them to brush their teeth and take a bath. My daughter the singer/dancer puts on a morning show in front of her mirror every morning and my son has to beat his last score on his Nintendo 3Ds. An hour or so later when they are wide awake they come charging scavenging for food and bombarding me with questions which my half asleep brain is not functioning well enough to answer. On top of that there is nothing like a loud hectic morning without the sibling quarrel. We do our morning devotion giving thanks to God for a new day, then when it is just about time to head out the door and get to school we go on a hunt looking for socks, books, winter gloves, hats, which all have a rightful place but yet they are never to be found.  I am exhausted just righting this paragraph! So as you can see mornings can be a bit much in my household and my goal is to change that.

Mirror, Mirror, What do I See

A positive self-image is something many of us women lack, especially when we are bombarded with the media's portrayal of beauty.  Sadly those perfectly airbrushed bodies on magazine covers are what young girls and women aspire to look like.  And why not! When they are being told a healthy size 10 is considered to be plus size! This mentality, this way of living is what pushes young girls into deadly eating disorders and one to many plastic surgery procedures.  We all look in the mirror and instantly we citizen ourselves, we focus on what we consider to be flaws.  "My nose is too big, I hate my freckles, my breast are too small, my thighs are too big, my hair is to thin," and so on and so forth.  We begin to inflict self-hate, poisoning our minds against ourselves. Hoping to look like something we're not, hoping to look like somebody else.