The 14 Day Become a Better Stay-At-Home-Mom Challenge

My cousin just recently completed the 21 day no sugar challenge. Where, as you can imagine, she avoided (as best as she could) eating sugar. The theory is that it takes 21 days for your body and brain to become accustom to a new diet or way of life. Honestly, 21 days is extremely daunting to me and I would probably fail. So for my SAHM Challenge I settled on 14 days. Which (for whatever reason) my mind finds manageable.

So what is this “14 Day Become a Better Stay-At-Home-Mom Challenge”? (Other than a mouthful). Well, it is one giant goal made up of a lot of smaller goals. Basically I’ve decided that I want to live a more structured life with a routine to help strengthen my self-esteem, general happiness, as well as my daughter’s physical and mental health.

This 14 day challenge will consist of waking up at a certain time each day, preparing breakfast for my daughter and I, arranging and going to morning play dates, blogging during nap time, eating lunch, planning fun activities for my daughter, etc. Each day I will write about a different “mini-goal”. For example: limiting screen time, planning meals, making time for me, focusing on my marriage, etc.

My hope and end goal is that after 14 days of pushing myself to complete these tasks that it will become easier and hopefully second-nature to me to live this way. I hope that I will become both physically and mentally healthier with more energy and a better outlook on life.

Today is Day 0. The day I clean my house and get ready for the long 2 weeks ahead. Tomorrow will be Day 1 and there will be no looking back from there. Talk to you then.