Jul282009
Not Super Woman
Filed under Confession by kristen at 7:32 pm on Jul 28 2009
I think there are definitely some benefits and some downfalls from the world of blogging. The transfer of information is at the speed of light. We are able to know what people are doing. Things that several years ago were private and only talked about with close friends. Now many people (including me) often lay our innermost thoughts and fears out for everyone to read, ponder and criticize.
As a blogger it is so easy to compare myself with the other bloggers out there. There are some especially “famous” bloggers in the Weight Watcher world that are very inspiring. Many times these individuals seem like superheroes. They do the impossible by balancing home, work, their health (and all the aspects that involves) along with all of the other areas of their lives. It is so easy to line our lives (and I really mean my life) up next to theirs and feel like we fall short.
I think the blog world has made so many great changes in the life of living a healthy life but I think there are definitely some downfalls. This has really been on my mind the last few weeks. It has been a crazy summer. To be honest the last 9 months have been hard as many of you know from my previous posts. I feel like we haven’t even had time to breathe. We weren’t planning on putting our house up on the market. We just wanted to stop and see what was out there. See if there was anything we thought we would fit what we were looking for. And out of nowhere we found a house that we love. I can see us living there, raising our girls there, growing old together. There is just one major obstacle. We weren’t planning on putting our house up for sale yet. I hadn’t started decluttering and all of those other necessary tasks before you list your house. So I have been rushing around like a mad woman (all the while wishing I was Super Woman) trying to get things in order to put our house on the market. My running has gone to pot (but I know that I will eventually get back to it) and my eating lacks some things. Being overwhelmed and feelings of panic are real.
All of this on top of feeling like I have let my blog readers down and myself down by not working on new recipes, post new food reviews and general blogging through all of this. But much to my dismay, I am not Super Woman. I am still around. I know that my readership has started to dwindle most likely to my lack of new entries.
I have three new food reviews that I need to post. I am going to attempt to work on them later tonight or in the morning before the girls go to dance camp.
I write all of this for those of you that feel like you fall short…. you are not alone. We are all just doing the best that we can each day.
1 Karen/Momon 28 Jul 2009 at 8:21 pm
You are so right, we are not Super Woman and trying to do more than we can realistically do is setting ourselves up for failure. Try to find time to slow down and breathe. Life and it challenges will always be there. You can only do the best you can do and don’t compare yourself to others. You blog was good. Take care of your self. If you don’t, you will wind up in a big, dark hole.
2 Nickion 28 Jul 2009 at 8:54 pm
Kristen, this is awesome and so are you! Thank you for not pretending to be Super Woman, for being so real & honest, and for putting it all out there for the world to read. When I think back to all you’ve accomplished, all you’ve been through, and all you continue to do, I think you’re a lot closer to the superhero role than you realize!
A lot closer than me, anyway!!!! 
3 Mollyon 28 Jul 2009 at 10:04 pm
I think you’re Super Woman…does that count?
4 Christy Wilkisonon 29 Jul 2009 at 7:07 am
Oh my goodness Kristen, please give yourself a break! You are an amazing wife, mother and an inspiration to mannnnnnny weight watchers! Please just give yourself a little time to enjoy yourself, try to find some time to relax a little.
You are the bomb!
xoxo
Christy
5 Kimon 29 Jul 2009 at 7:38 am
Give yourself a break! Even with the overwhelming feelings and crazy life, take pride in the fact that you have a happy, healthy family and in time things will be back to “normal”.
One of my fave movie quotes comes from Tombstone. Wyatt tells Doc Holiday all he ever wanted was a normal life, Doc tells him “Wyatt, there is no normal, just life”. I refer to this on almost a daily basis! It helps me with my “normal life”.
Hugs and good luck selling the house:)
6 Amberon 31 Jul 2009 at 5:47 pm
Kristen, I can’t even imagine trying to do everything you do!! Give me a break!! I am not a mom and I only have a husband to think about and feel like I can’t keep up. There are days on end that I don’t even open e-mails here at home. Give yourself a break, you are a wonderful inspiration to us on Saturday morning at WW. I really enjoy reading your post and when you don’t have as much time that just makes me look forward to them all the more!!