Comedy Through The Chaos: Parenting Edition

Hello, hello, hello. And happy Saturday to everybody out there in the Cadre sphere. I am Ms. Shannon. I'm a variety of word related things, a comedian, a corporate speaker, a voice actor, an event MC and a benefit auctioneer. And I hub out of the great state of Minnesota and I'm joining you this morning for our comedy through the chaos parenting edition. And it's been a week. It's been a week. Not a terrible week, just a week. Those of you who know that I have an adorable 17 year old kiddo who happens to be.

Hi. Hello, Christy. Good to see you. I have an adorable 17 year old kiddo who happens to be high supports on the autism spectrum. Hello, Rick. Good to see your name in the chat as well. We have been home from school since Wednesday because. Hey, Jules. He has some crud that has been floating through his body. He does look better today. Yes, brisk ice tea is coming. So he does look better. Not well enough that I decided to have his adaptive personal trainer come to the house today, but well enough that he is up and moving and requesting additional beverages.

And we are talking about. Not angry. Yeah, we're not angry. We're sick. Hello. So I thought I would join you for a bit, discussing what we have going on, the comedy through the chaos. You can give me your cup. Nothing. His new fancy cup that I think I talked about on Thursday that he has. Are you gonna say hi? Hi. Go pick a drink. I got this handled. You pick a drink. Mom's gonna talk for approximately five to seven minutes and then you can be in charge of my phone, so. Oh, it's a nice day outside.

Let's go out here and talk for a bit. As we continue talking about all of the chaos that we have, I thought I would use today to talk about the concept of progression and how we move towards things, even though it seems like we're slowing down. Oh, you got your shoes on. Good idea. If you also want to know what I will be doing today, you don't need mom's tone. Come on, come on, keep walking, keep walking, keep walking. Look out, look out, keep walking, look out. So, Joy, one of the things that I thought this week had really shown me was how difficult a time I even have with the concept of resting.

And so of course, when you're getting over something, you know it's in your best interest to look at rest as a priority. And it's funny because even the way my brain works, it looks at lots of options of how you can recover quickly, including boosting your immune system and Everything else I could do other than the word rest. And so this week I had to really focus on sometimes what the option is. That is the best option is to also include rest in that conversation, that discussion. So not only encouraging him to rest, but encouraging even for me to go, well, you need to rearrange your life a little bit right now so that you're getting rest too, so that you don't end up getting taken out and down for the count as well.

And I think that's difficult for a lot of us because not only does our society kind of look at rest like it's a negative thing, but I think that we start to train ourselves to look at rest like it's a burden. We look at rest like it's a weakness. Instead of going, you know, rest is part of the whole process and something that we absolutely need in order to recover, but in our harder not also to burn out and fry and to make that part of the process and the progress that we make and being able to wrap ourselves around the fact that rest is okay, you see how quick we move.

Rest is not a thing that either of us do. And so it does actually feel kind of like a, like a penalty. Like the fact that I have to sit still seems like a problem. So that's something that I've had to really work on personally. So what we're going to do today is our version of rest. In addition to that, I am also setting, sanitizing my house. I'm glad that it is. You can see I'm outside in Minnesota in short sleeves. So I am also using this as a good day to air out the house and do that because sometimes you just need a change of energies as well.

And so good reminder for me, hopefully a good reminder for you as well that that is part of the process too, that we move forward to that it's okay to allow some energies to dissipate and to move on to different climbs. So I'm going to go and parent and talk about, I think are we going to talk about emotions? Emotions And I'm going to go do a whole lot of laundry as a parent to make sure that some, some good vibes get washed down a drain somewhere down the road. So we always appreciate this opportunity to be able to check in with all of you here.

I hope that the universe is treating you well. I know that this is a very anxiety driven time for so many of us for a variety of reasons. So I'm always happy to be able to connect with you and hopefully give you a couple of moments of appropriate chaos, a few smiles, and we can also discuss what we can do to continue to support and amplify one another. So I will see you on Thursday. We're gonna go find something to do as a family. And I appreciate all of you. Enjoy the rest of your day, friends.