My next door neighbor has 4 amazing girls and her husband travels a lot for work.  The other night when my son and I were coming back from our walk I started chatting with our neighbor in the driveway.  My husband has been working a lot these days and that means that I have been flying solo during dinner/bath/reading/bedtime.  I asked her how she did it - her husband was sometimes away for months at a time and she replied, "Make sure that you do things to take care of YOU.  Whether that means exercise, gardening, whatever."  She explained that she was gardening and hadn't cleaned her house or made dinner but that she needed to get this done before it was dark - and this was her way of taking care of herself so that she could take care of everyone else.  This has been my inspiration for the week. I am walking every night and I took Friday off from work.  I will send my son to daycare and I will do things like go shopping, or take a nap, or whatever!  It is going to be rainy and crummy out, but I don't care.  I am doing this to take care of ME and that is going to make me stronger and more able to take care of them!  Also, for mothers day I asked my husband for a housecleaner to come to my house to clean.  I didn't want anything, just some help with dusting and washing windows!  And that is happening this weekend. 

What things do you do to make sure that you are taking care of yourself so that you can take care of everyone else?