How the working mother can relax

You are stressed-out from work, then when you get home you have to cook dinner, go over homework assignments and make sure everyone has taken their baths and ready for bed. Before you know it, it is the next day already and it has started all over again. This is pretty much how your five day work week go. Every weekend you have to do laundry, go to the grocery store and run all those errands that you can't do during the week. On Sunday's you're in church, cooking Sunday dinner, out visiting friends and getting ready to start that crazy work week cycle again. So when do you as a working mother take the time to relax?

You have to stop and make the time to relax. If you don't, it definitely will not be given to you. As a working mother you are pulled both ways at home and work. First you have to regroup your daily routine at home. Instead of coming in everyday and cooking dinner, pick a day and cook up several meals that can be popped into the microwave. This will free up some of your evening time right there. You can sit down and relax for a minute while it's cooking in the microwave, instead of cooking a full course meal everyday after work.

Pick one night out the week to do laundry. This will free you up on Saturday. Pick another night out of the week to go grocery shopping instead of Saturady also. By doing a couple of these chores one night a week during the week you have eliminated this from Saturday and you can spend that time doing absolutely nothing. If you have errands that you have to do on the weekend pick morning or afternoon. Which ever one you decide to take, spend the other time relaxing.

Let your family know either that morning or afternoon is your down time. Make it house rules that anything that has to be done will have to be between the hours you are running errands. If it can't be done betwen that time, pick one night in the following week to do it then. On Sundays all you need to do is church and dinner. The rest of the day is to rest to prepare you for the work week to come.

If you have had an extremely bad day at work. Make youself a promise after a long hard day you will take a nice long relaxing bubble bath after the kids are gone to bed. Even though it's the beginning or middle of the week, treat yourself to candles, relaxing music and maybe a small glass of wine. Don't save this bath ritual just for the weekend. Do it when you need it. This is the best way for you to relieve stress and relax. You will feel so good the next day, you can handle the fifty million things you have to do.

The whole key to relaxing as a working mother is to structure your life for that relaxation. Rearrange your schedule so on the weekends you won't have to do everything because you work five days a week. Spread those chores out. If you have older children start delegating chores to them. With them helping out this can free up your time to relax more. Try to arrange where you are not the only one doing everything around the house. We tend to think we are superwomen, that we have to do everything, when we don't.

We don't have relaxing time as working mothers because we don't make it for ourselves. Let your family know you need down time like everyone else. You deserve this time and you are going to take this time to relax.