Overscheduled & Underwhelmed: Living a busy life and overcoming the emptiness within

Hey Housewives! This week’s episode is going to cover a great deal of things as we address being overscheduled mamas and families.  Our main goal with discussing this topic is to challenge you to ask yourself a few questions & determine if you are finding joy in all of the busyness or if you are living underwhelmed.  Our hope is that you would bring awareness to some of these feelings whether excited for the next season of chaos or paralyzed by the thought that you don’t know how you’ll get everything done.  Either way, there’s some encouragement on this episode for you. When we sign our kids up for things whether sports, activities, camps, etc…we ultimately put ourselves in the position of being a manager, a chaos coordinator and for those of us who have multiple kids, we become carpooling schedulers.  At some point it becomes overwhelming and we do have to weigh the cost…not just money, it’s the time, energy, and what else we are sacrificing in our family.   While sports and activities are a huge part, what about the other things that happen to fill our calendars: birthday parties, play dates, homework, and keeping up with household chores such as: laundry, cooking, cleaning, etc.  The lists keep growing and the ability to keep up gets to be too much sometimes that we just shut down.  Is that the way we are supposed to be living?   Even our society and culture is training us to stay busy…they have convenience options for us to do grocery pick ups, door dash for fast food to be delivered to you, and Tracy’s personal favorite: Instacart…groceries delivered straight to your door! (link below)  One thing we have each found important is setting boundaries.  There needs to be room for white space in your calendar…the margin, between the busy schedule…to spend quality time in relationships: with your spouse, your kids, friends, other family members and most importantly, God!  We cover the common misused word “balance”.  To us it is a double edged sword and for moms it’s undefinable. We like to say that the only thing you can truly balance is your priorities.  We ask these questions: Is it true that we have to be this busy? Or has culture created this and FOMO keeps us there? Are you feeling underwhelmed? What is your personal capacity?  The truth is that busyness will stick around if you have kids unless you do something different to change it…this is life. So consider this…have you decided what your world looks like with complete peace and joy?  💙 What brings you joy? Your kids joy? Your spouse joy? Where’s your peace? Your margin? Evaluate…are you living for the next event and activity or are you living with your family? If it’s on a calendar, is it required? Does it bring you and your family joy? How does it affect the rest of the family?    Instacart link https://inst.cr/t/UHV3NEg1NTV2   Join our fast growing community on Facebook and connect with us on Instagram!  Write an apple review and YOUR review could be read on our next episode!  Hosted by Tori Shirah and Tracy Stine Contact us ➡️ [email protected]