Okay, here goes nothing…. I’m about to get real honest here; The Valdes Team home base is usually a mess. No, not the kind of mess where there’s just a little dust because things weren’t dusted one week. I’m talking about tornado kind of aftermath and gym locker room smells!
The reality is that it’s damn hard to balance family, work, hobbies, and all the million daily responsibilities that modern society bombards us with. Adulting is just plain HARD, especially when you still feel like a kid at heart and want to have F-U-N with life. It’s a blessing when family help is available or parents have other adults living within the home to help with chores and children, but #teamvaldes never really has that. #teamvaldes grandparents are still too healthy, vibrant, and still have too much zest for thier own lives (damn nutrition and modern medicine, 😆). Although, it truly takes a village to raise children sometimes…. definitely one of the hardest challenges we’ve ever embarked on!
The point is that Team Valdes is just your average 4-person family of two parents and two children trying to balance and achieve it all together. Sure, our home could be emaculate if we just cooked, washed, cleaned, scrubbed, and dusted all day, but when would we swim, bike, run, train, play with the kids, or chauffeur their little privileged butts around town to get them to their hobbies and activities of interest? Our house could smell like a field of lavender just married a grove of Gardenia’s, but the reality is that we sweat EVERYDAY because we all train and practice something EVERYDAY. When it comes to laundry, 75% of it consists of stinky activewear. And we’re just talking about the home; the car will be a topic for another day! 😂
We are a family who is always in and out. The result? It fulfills us… internally. I works for us. We thrive (mentally, physically, and emotionally) on activity and fitness. Not in a weird, obsessive, conceited sort of way, but in a mental, refreshing, ready-to-handle-anything-after-working-out type of way. It makes us happier, healthier. It makes us better spouses, parents, friends. It’s our free, organic medicine. It’s not just the physical aspect, but also the presence outdoors, within nature, the organic part of our world. We’ve always felt there is some strong connection/force/energy between humanity and the natural world that lifts, encourages, touches the spirit, the soul. It’s free therapy and we’ll take a little of it everyday!
Life is full of choices. Team Valdes chooses to spend the limited time in this world doing as much as possible of anything that makes us feel whole, complete. We wake up knowing tomorrow is not a guarantee for either one of us and TRY (it can be hard sometimes!) to focus on the here, now, today. We wake up and choose to love, live, open our eyes to the bright and beauty, and have as much fun along the journey!
It works for us. Everyone is different and everyone’s situations or experiences are different; There is so much beauty in that uniqueness! Find whatever works for you and go for it! Find some beauty amongst the thorn patch, some light within the darkness. After all, no one really cares and in the end there will always be those who’d rather judge because nothing will EVER be perfect. It would be too easy!
Here’s to sweat, smells, love, laughter, and life! 😘
P.S. Feel free to stop by whenever! If you don’t mind the chaos, we don’t mind it either! Don’t worry, you might just stop by on a good day when everything appears in prefect order.
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