Want to Avoid Holiday Burn Out?

 

Is there something or someone you need to say No to? It’s an important word … especially this time of year.

Two days before Thanksgiving, we had new floors installed into 4 rooms. Imagine the amount of stuff we boxed up out of closets and off of bookshelves, etc. And of course the cleaning & dusting that’s involved too. Oof.

The clutter and I are sloowwllyy getting organized as I prepare for a weekend with 5 of our grandbabies and my MIL.

There will be happy messes with cookie-making, gift-opening, and other random shenanigans. But if I’m not careful, I’ll burn out before they even get here.

So. I’m saying YES to peace even if it means saying NO to help at church. I’m saying YES to simplicity even if it means saying NO to traditions that require too much of me this year.

This is my motto for times such as this: “What gets done, gets done. If we don’t have it, we don’t need it.”

No guilt. No shame. No worries.