How to cope with stress.

I really wish I had the answer to this.  Lately I have been battling my brain.  When I get stressed, I turn to food, or alcohol.  Like it is a needed item.  I struggle with my brain all the time.  If I go out and get a big bowl of Sweet Frog, will that really make me feel better?  Will all of my problems poof, and disappear?  No.  So drinking a whole bottle of wine, will only make me hungover and feel like shit the next morning.

Life is hard.  I have 3 active boys under the age of 5 and its not easy.  I have issues with yelling at them, and my anxiety shoots through the roof when things don't happen when I want them to happen.  I really am trying to slow down and enjoy these times - but in the heat of the moment, its hard.  I have recently switched my job schedule to part-time so I can spend more time with them, instead of daycare raising my kids.  I need to take it one day at a time, one hour at a time, one minute at time.  So what if we will be late to football practice.  I need to slow down, and enjoy these little moments.

Epic Birthday Weekend.

This past Tuesday I hit the big 2-7 (yay?) and  I decided this would be the year that I actually celebrate like a 27 year old.  Usually  I do a low-key birthday dinner with my family, and skip the night life partying.  Not this year!  On Friday, my hubby took me out to my favorite hookah bar, where we had way too much fried food and drinks. 

Saturday night we did a party on a yacht, which was awesome!  We took shots from the shot-ski, and ended up eating jumbo slice pizza at 1am.

Sunday I felt like death.  I dont know how people do this every weekend!  I did not want to see another drop of alcohol - ever.

Tuesday rolled around and I drank margaritas poolside with my mom and her friend.  Again .. too much liquor :).

I had an amazing birthday, my stomach and body are still hurting and probably wont do this for another year.  No matter if I have 3 kids, I wanted to enjoy myself and I did.