So, here I sit, eating toast and drinking coffee at the place that was once where I worked for my last company, and is now the place where I can do so many other things. There are so many things I want to make a part of a routine. (5 months postpartum and I am JUST starting to develop a good routine for myself.) I am figuring out what is priority and what is good to do when I have a chance to do it. That is particularly hard for me to do because I have a tendency to everything has the same priority and I need to get it ALL done NOW and then I get overwhelmed and then I end up not doing anything because its too much mental load. 🙃
BUT now I am trying hard to integrate things to help me be my best self for my daughter and my husband. First priority was to focus on my spiritual walk with Christ…reading my bible and talking with God regularly. If I can find time to do other things I can CERTAINLY find time for that. I am putting full focus on my baby girl (now 5 months old 😭) and a renewed focus on my small business.
Side note, if y’all haven’t yet, can you take a look at my Etsy page and maybe give my shop a follow? https://theoldhousevintageco.etsy.com
I have some gorgeous greeting cards and bookmarks on there that are literally begging for homes. You can also find me on TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook. I really want my small biz to take off so I can help my hubby (who is working soooo hard) make some money for our family. 🫶🏼 TIA! Ok, advertisement over.
Boy we do live in such a privileged world though. I am humbled at how easy even the worst of us have it when I think about other mothers throughout history. Sacagawea hiking across the Midwest with a baby on her back, women in the Victorian era (and all throughout history) losing child after child to who knows what, mothers having to send their children to work in factories and mines, enslaved women during the Civil War on the Underground Railroad having to chloroform their child so they would not be found while escaping to freedom, Israelite women enslaved in Egypt having their babies ripped screaming from their arms and thrown into the Nile river. We think we are “super moms” because we take our 3 kids to their 15+ extra curricular activities, while still making our Zumba class, working from home, going out to girls night once a week, and being able to make well-rounded home cooked meals almost every night. But are we really “super moms”? Is that really what makes us an amazing mom and woman? Don’t get me wrong people who can accomplish all this are amazing and MORE POWER TO YOU! I don’t mean that sarcastically cause I certainly can’t do all of that. But what I am saying is look at how hard women/mothers have had it in the past…use that reflection as a chance to slow down a little, be a present parent to your children, and be grateful for where you are now and the things you have.
The older generation likes to talk about “the good ol’ days” and how things were better back then…lots of Tradwives like to say they wish they could have lived in the 50s. But as an archaeologist and historian I say a big NOOOO. I love the aesthetic, clothes, look, and decor of times past! Adore it with a passion! BUT I am perfectly fine living in my modern times with Wi-Fi, Pads, toilet paper, the right to vote, the right to go to college and work,….ya know. Things women DIDN’T have in times past. Gimme the aesthetic…but please let me live out that aesthetic in today’s time where I am (mostly) treated as an equal.
Ok that was all really rambly.
Final word: Don’t trash today, because you are looking at yesteryear with rose colored glasses.
Ok that’s all thanks byeeee!
PS Please check out my Etsy! https://theoldhousevintageco.etsy.com
Diaries Of A Mad Archaeologist 
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