Wowza, is time flying by or what? I can’t believe it’s the first week of December already.
If you’re the highly organized type, you’ve already got your holiday cards purchased, addressed, signed with personal notes, stamped with festive holiday stamps and mailed.
You have all your gifts bought, wrapped and labled, shipped if necessary or safely hidden away until the big night.
Your holiday menus and guest lists are prepared, and you might even have cookies in the freezer for those unexpected holiday visitors.
If that’s you- you can just stop reading right now. This post is not for you.
This post is for the mom who wakes up on December first and goes, “Holy crap!”
This post is for the mom who finds herself hyperventilating on December 15 because she still has 543 things to do before the in-laws show up.
This post is for the mom who finds herself completely and totally overcome by overwhelm at the holidays or any other time.
I wrote about overwhelm here and here, and you can read them if you haven’t already.
But here’s the thing.
If you’re not already overwhelmed by all the holiday hoopla, you might be soon. And I wanted to give moms a tool they could really use to deal with it all.
So I came up with The Overwhelmed Mom’s Rescue Kit.
This is an eight page workbook that walks you through a 7-step process to move you from frantic activity to focused action.
The good news is that if you’re already in full-on freak-out mode, it will guide you to back to sanity.
The better news is that if you’re not there yet- but feel the early symptoms of overwhelm- you can use this to make sure you don’t get there.
Click here to check it out, and I’d be most obliged if you’d let me know how it works for you!
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How did you know what I said on December 1?
And many years ago I reduced the overwhelm considerably by making it a policy NOT to have parents or inlaws here on Christmas day. No obligation guests. We spend Xmas with people we like who like us.
.-= JoVE´s last blog ..Being available, with limits =-.
that didn’t come out quite right. But with family, there are so many expectations of how it should be that it is hard to just be.
.-= JoVE´s last blog ..Being available, with limits =-.
JoVE- I totally get it! As will everyone else who has family they love, but don’t always *like*. And yes- the expectations are often what do us in!
Liz…
Let me just say, “I love you forever!” This Overwhelmed Mom’s Rescue Kit…rescued me!
The hardest part was making myself sit down with it and DO it! But once I got started, it got easier.
And on page 3 where you say, “I’ll wait right here for you – no matter how long it takes.” Well…I can’t begin to describe how comforted I was by those simple words. Seriously.
I mean – yeah, I know you were going to wait because hello – “you” were the words on the page…duh…but still…the conversational, personal voice that you use when you write is just like you’re talking to me (one of the reasons I love your writing so much) and…ok…you get the idea. I’ll stop gushing now.
.-= Suzanne @ vAssistant Services´s last blog ..In Others’ Words: November 23, 2009 =-.
@Suzanne- You’re so sweet. One of the things that’s so hard about overwhelm is the feeling of isolation. I’m so glad that a little feeling of connection comes across! That makes me happy.
And let me give you some public props for getting this thing up on the blog in the first place!
I was banging my head against the computer trying to figure out how to get a pdf uploaded and inserted. God bless Suzanne- in 2 minutes she had me sorted out without making me feel like an idiot! Need any wordpress help- she’s your gal!