"You are good...but, you are not Wonder Woman!"
I have it in my head that I can do everything, on my own...well..and 100%. I sometimes really do think I am Wonder Woman, and yesterday was a cold-hard...painful reminder that I am just Kimberly...not, the can-do-it-all beauty that is Wonder Woman!
After a very eventful morning of VBS work, and being outside all morning I decided I would get Miss Natalie home, fed lunch, and I would get myself back outside to mow. (Have I told you how much I love to mow??!!) That's just what I did...Natalie was peacefully to sleep....I skipped over lunch (because I thought I could do more...and do it quicker without lunch)...changed my clothes, grabbed the baby monitor..and bam...I was outside pushing the mower in the awesome sunshine :-) Where I just love to be! I was doing great...until a terrible headache started...and, as opposed to stopping I kept pushing...I was getting the lawn DONE! Well, I got the lawn finished....and I closed up by vomiting in my backyard....I came in hoping to find relief and was met with the opposite. Dizziness, a blackout, and extreme head pains! I actually sat on my couch praying that God would not take me! I've never endured such a sensation!
Rob came home to find me hardly able to open my eyes...heat exhaustion to the extreme! It was in that moment it all added up....no food..ALL DAY...and lots of hard work do not add up. Remember me telling you that I am so guilty of not stopping to give my body the energy it needs??!!! Well, old habits do die hard. I fell into that old frame of mind, that I could do it all...on my own...I thought I was Wonder Woman.
It's great to have drive, ambition, and be a self-starter...I'm certainly all of those things, but, I am those things to a fault sometimes. Yesterday was an intense reminder that I need my health, I need energy...I need to take time to allow my body to rest and recoup. Those things are healthy.
So, our lesson for today would be practice caution in the sun...and take good care of our bodies. Without our health, and bodies we are unable to keep going....not Wonder Woman style...but, normal...human-style :-)
I have it in my head that I can do everything, on my own...well..and 100%. I sometimes really do think I am Wonder Woman, and yesterday was a cold-hard...painful reminder that I am just Kimberly...not, the can-do-it-all beauty that is Wonder Woman!
After a very eventful morning of VBS work, and being outside all morning I decided I would get Miss Natalie home, fed lunch, and I would get myself back outside to mow. (Have I told you how much I love to mow??!!) That's just what I did...Natalie was peacefully to sleep....I skipped over lunch (because I thought I could do more...and do it quicker without lunch)...changed my clothes, grabbed the baby monitor..and bam...I was outside pushing the mower in the awesome sunshine :-) Where I just love to be! I was doing great...until a terrible headache started...and, as opposed to stopping I kept pushing...I was getting the lawn DONE! Well, I got the lawn finished....and I closed up by vomiting in my backyard....I came in hoping to find relief and was met with the opposite. Dizziness, a blackout, and extreme head pains! I actually sat on my couch praying that God would not take me! I've never endured such a sensation!
Rob came home to find me hardly able to open my eyes...heat exhaustion to the extreme! It was in that moment it all added up....no food..ALL DAY...and lots of hard work do not add up. Remember me telling you that I am so guilty of not stopping to give my body the energy it needs??!!! Well, old habits do die hard. I fell into that old frame of mind, that I could do it all...on my own...I thought I was Wonder Woman.
It's great to have drive, ambition, and be a self-starter...I'm certainly all of those things, but, I am those things to a fault sometimes. Yesterday was an intense reminder that I need my health, I need energy...I need to take time to allow my body to rest and recoup. Those things are healthy.
So, our lesson for today would be practice caution in the sun...and take good care of our bodies. Without our health, and bodies we are unable to keep going....not Wonder Woman style...but, normal...human-style :-)