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Taking Control of What We Can And Letting Go Of The Rest

Wow!  Last week was a heck of a week.  The local news was reporting a “mysterious virus” affecting children and don’t you know my daughter spikes a fever Sunday night that lasted the whole week.  While my daughter was sick in bed, my son decided to break the two bones in his lower arm while playing on the playground at school.  Our week was spent changing schedules, running to doctor appointments, and even a trip to the operating room for my little guy.  And in case you don’t know……..my husband and I both work full-time outside of the home.  As crazy as the week was, for some reason the teenager still wanted to be taken care of as well.   Emotions and exhaustion were in high supply.
 
My little guy at the emergency room

Since we are a real food house, the only thing we didn’t have to worry about is what we were going to eat all week.  Right? Wrong!  I so wish this was true.  If I was really on the ball, I would have had plenty of bone broth in the freezer and lots of quick and easy meals ready to go.  The problem is…………….all of the illness and broken bones came before I had a chance to go to the grocery store.  I barely had any milk in the house.
It was not a wonderful clean eating week.  I bought soup from a local restaurant more than once last week.  Boy, was that stuff salty!  It reminded me how much better homemade is in both taste and nutrition. However, my daughter was able to keep it down which kept her out of the hospital.  That was a definite win.  We also ate my favorite quick meal which is breakfast for dinner.  We had plenty of nuts and raisins in the house so that was the majority of our snacks.  Smoothies turned into a requested treat to fix all our ailments.  There is nothing like a frozen treat to make everything feel better!

 

Scrambled eggs for dinner with frest cherry tomatoes
My friend Gaye’s words kept running through my head all week and they really helped me to relax and just get through things.  I realized that although I had a ton of obligations last week (and likely let some people down) my family had to come first.  There was no multi-tasking or being superwoman.  There was just being mom which was a big enough job. Gaye’s blog Calm.Healthy.Sexy has been such a blessing to me.  She really has helped me to realize that “when I say YES to someone that I am saying NO to someone else.”  In this case, I just couldn’t say no to my children.  They needed me more than anyone else.
 
What does this have to do with real food?  Let me tell you.  I try to eat real about 80% or more of the time.  Sometimes it is easy to cook and prepare our real food diet and sometimes it is not.  Last week I decided that I would take control of what I could and just let go of the rest.  And………that is how we ended up eating restaurant soup and homemade smoothies.
 
I like to be a good example to all of you folks out there who really want to eat real food, but have busy family schedules.  It IS possible!  Don’t forget that, but sometimes…………it’s OK to let go a little.  Just don’t eat artificial colors.  I don’t want you to drop that far…………she says with a smile.
 
I decided to write this because I figure if I felt this way sometimes, then maybe you do too.  There are a lot of expectations out there about how we should feed our families.  I am clearly on the real food side of the argument.  Just do the best you can when times get tough and then get back to the good stuff as soon as you can.  Your body will thank you for that.
 
Misery loves company.  What has been one of your toughest weeks lately?  How often are you able to eat real food?  What are some of the things that get in the way of eating real food?
 
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  1. Gaye Christmus says

    September 17, 2014 at 1:14 am

    I love this post, Christina! I think you did exactly what you had to do to get through a very difficult week. And thanks so much for mentioning me. You are definitely an encouragement to me, so if I have encouraged you in any way, I am thrilled!

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    • Juggling Real Food and Real Life says

      September 18, 2014 at 2:04 am

      Thanks Gaye! I appreciate all of your great advice. It was nice to have you to lean on.

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  2. Multi-Testing Mommy says

    September 18, 2014 at 2:42 pm

    Awww…sometimes life throws us curve balls and we have to do the best we can! I'm so sorry to hear you had such a crazy week 🙁

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