This morning I woke up to an overwhelming dream. In my dream I had just been made the head server of a very fancy Italian restaurant. It was a huge promotion that I wanted. unfortunately I was also trying to juggle my kids who were at the restaurant that night, I was trying to figure out how I was going to fit college classes into my schedule and the chef had apparently just flew the coop so I was trying to cook up spaghetti for a huge passle of people. My dream ended to a woman calling to make a 10:45 p.m. dinner appointment. I had just asked the owner what we should do when I woke up. I had slept in 30 minutes which meant we were behind schedule for getting to school on time, again.
I have thought about this dream all day. The wierd part is I have had dreams about this particular restaraunt before. I was a measly server in those, but still overwhelmed. Somehow I knew in this dream I could handle all these tasks just not at that exact moment. I thought, "that was a wierd dream" until I realized that in real life I am the head server and the head chef and the mama and the appointment keeper and a student. All these things are important and somehow I am more capable of juggling and balancing then I was a few years ago. I do deserve the promotion I gave myself in the dream but somedays the woman in me is just a little tired and overwhelmed with all of it.
As I thought of this post today I thought of all the talented women I know and love who are master jugglers. There is something empowering about being a capable woman and yet at times we are so likely to feel like we are failures because we just can't make it all work at the same time. This is a hip hip hooray to all you other talented women out there who are trying to make it work and a reminder that you should just say no to to that ridiculous 10:45 p.m. appointment. There is a limit and we deserve a break.
I would also like to give a shout out for for my sister's new art web site. She is one of those jugglers trying to teach her children, make a living for her kids and overcome enormous personal obstacles. Check out some of her work here.
2 comments:
I feel like I have to be the mast juggler when Jason is out of town and I am doing it all. It can be so overwhelming I just want to crawl in a hole or sneak away to a movie and forget about it all.
That is so powerful. How do you have such great insight? I love your posts. They always seem to have such a great meaning and message. This is probably one of the best times of the year for this post as well. Even though it all really never seems to end.
You are an amazing woman and an awesome "chef" to boot.
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