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I’ve been feeling really emotional the past coup

I’ve been feeling really emotional the past couple of weeks.

Last week I spent an entire hour-long yoga class crying. I still did all the things - I just cried too.

Yesterday I cried during therapy, then cried in a financial planner’s office because she was awful.

Truly.

At one point I said, “Well, March 2020 was a shit show - people were literally hitting each other over toilet paper, so I don’t think that’s a fair example of market fluctuations.”

I don’t swear in people’s offices, you guys - but the only reason I sat there with this awful beast was to get set up to withdraw money we’ve saved for my kid’s college.

I’ve told myself I’m going to get better about standing up for myself, so in this case swearing while I sat there shaking and crying into my mask seemed like a fair compromise until I could get to to the parking lot.

But today I have an emotional hangover, and my soul just hurts a little. It all feels extra hard.

I tried to make a mammogram appointment and their switchboard was so busy, they just hung up on me.

I’m trying not to take it personally.

We’re all weary.

Many of us are so past the point of what we can handle from the world.

So I journal. I stretch. I bury my face in cats and cry.

I read silly fiction because I need happy endings and hijinks.

I cope and then it gets to be too much and then …

Well, we still keep going, don’t we?

We sort of have to. We always have.

“We have not journeyed all this way, across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.” - Winston Churchill

We’re journeying.

And we can cry, because we won’t melt. We aren’t made of sugar candy.

Sometimes people want to pick a fight about homesc

Sometimes people want to pick a fight about homeschooling and sometimes … it’s something else entirely 💗

Ahh! My book is back to No. 4 in all of motherhood

Ahh! My book is back to No. 4 in all of motherhood on Audible.

That’s just crazy. But I’m so grateful to every person who has purchased and reviewed 💗

I suspect this reappearance may have a little something to do with @readaloudrevival sharing a couple of chapters on the podcast this week 😉

So if you’re wondering if you’d like my book, you can go listen to episode 194 and hear a bit. 🎧

Thank you so much @readaloudrevival and thank you to all of you for supporting More Than Enough. 🥰

(Book link is in my bio 🤍)

Pablo loves doing yoga with me so much - so I boug

Pablo loves doing yoga with me so much - so I bought him his own mat!

Not really. I totally already had this for my Cabbage Patch Doll.

…

OK. That’s not true either.

I’ve had it for a few years. It’s just a little mat they sell for extra padding if you have hard floors 🤷‍♀️

But look how much he loves it! 🐈‍⬛ 🤍

Also - who else out there adopted a beloved tiny cabbage person in the 80s?

Do you remember your cruciferous doll’s name and/or defining characteristics?

Mine was Oliver something …

He was bald.

My mom got in a fist fight in a Kmart so I could raise him.

Gosh. That’s not true either.

Maybe don’t believe me today.

#pablolovesyoga

Y’all. Can we please talk about this hair situat

Y’all. Can we please talk about this hair situation?

Last year when I was doing infusions at our local cancer center (I didn’t have cancer - it’s just where they do all infusions) I decided I wanted to keep growing my hair and donate it.

But it’s getting a little out of control.

So does anyone have a place they recommend for donating?

The more places I look, the more confused I get. Some people charge for wigs - that doesn’t seem great. 🤷‍♀️ But maybe there are costs I don’t understand?

Anyway, if you have tips/advice, I’d appreciate it.

Also, this is my plain old untreated hair 🤷‍♀️ I know some places don’t want bleached, straightened, permed … whatever.

This is just my giant, heavy, half curly and half straight head nonsense. 💇‍♀️

I just want to be able to eat. But eating, and fe

I just want to be able to eat.

But eating, and feeding people, can be kind of complicated.

So I made us something. ▶️

Like my cleaning ebook, I made my new meal planning ebook because I need it.

I need a simple system that helps me make food my people actual eat.

To read more, head to karasanderson.com/meal-planning

Or to just get the ebook, head to karasanderson.com/shop

Also, peanut butter is what holds me together. Literally and probably figuratively. 🤍 wait - reverse that.

My husband has been home for 18 days. This is a m

My husband has been home for 18 days.

This is a mistake.

We all got sick after Christmas and so he’s just *been here*.

All the time.

This never happens. Even when most people were quarantining in 2020? (I said 2019 last night), he was given special essential worker papers to show to the police or whoever.

I would say we have lost any routine whatsoever, except that’s not true.

My own 2022 routine includes waking up too late and reading a chapter of David Sedaris’s newest book. Then I make toast.

I wake up too late because I stay up too late watching Game of Thrones.

I have *no idea* what I’m looking at.

I’m on Season 3.

It’s just dragons and beheadings and weather.

I can’t wait until tomorrow when I will need to be an actual person again.

Lesson learned: We can never retire.

We will not be like my aunt and uncle, who “stay active,” and take online classes.

We will not be like my husband’s grandparents who took bus trips to tourist attractions and posed for photos and made new friends at 80.

We will just eat toast and watch Garage Sale Find! videos on YouTube until our cats eat us in our sleep.

Please join me for the REST of 2021, wherein we do

Please join me for the REST of 2021, wherein we do as little as possible and lavish praise upon ourselves for things like taking out the trash. 🤍🤍

I love this week between. We do puzzles and watch really heady documentaries like ‘Beanie Mania,’ about Beanie Baby collecting in the late 90s.

In my mind, this is just not a week to do. It’s a week to be and maybe shower.

I hope whatever this week holds for you, that you get some time to breathe. 🤍

I know I’m not the only one who gets all emotion

I know I’m not the only one who gets all emotional around Christmas music.

Songs can bring up a lot of feelings and old memories.

So yesterday I worked on a cheery Christmas playlist, so we can listen to Christmas songs without fear of something coming on next that’s going to make us cry.

We could definitely call this a Christmas playlist for highly sensitive folk. 😌🎄

Merry Christmas!

You can find a link in my bio: @karastephensonanderson

Big news! 🎉 Pablo and I have started yoga and

Big news! 🎉

Pablo and I have started yoga and meditation teacher training. ☺️

I think only one of us can get legally certified, but I sort of imagine teaching online from home, and Pablo being really involved 🐈‍⬛🤍

Last photo: my friend @vanessanwright told me to take a picture the minute I signed up. 😊

I was in my car while my son took a final. 🥰

#pablolovesyoga

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