Crying over tea

 Yeah.  So a cup of tea made me cry last night.

Being the person who takes care of everyone else is a certain type of exhausting.  I’m very not great at taking care of myself. I celebrated a birthday recently…and was feeling very woe is me about how that went down…while simultaneously trying to feel grateful for a getaway to Florida.  To add to “background information” I’m the planner in my family and also the one who thinks birthdays are a big deal. I’m also a middle child…do you see where this is going?

So my birthday, where I am grateful was spent in a sunny local with sand and not snow, and I get to choose what we do for the day. We play arcade games, walk on the beach, have fun a drinky drink, eat at Arroz con Leche (mmm Cuban food),  go to Holistic House (which is a fabulous little shop in Holly Hills with some amazing practitioners), stop and get some mini cheesecakes, and go back and just chill for the rest of the day.  

Fast forward to returning home a few days later, where I’m in post vacation sad paired with lessons learned while away sinking in, and I’m feeling the sads  because no one did anything for my birthday.  I got a happy birthday text from my mom and some Facebook bday messages, my mother and father in law both sent cards with $ for my trip….but I’m just feeling very unimportant. Very much in the land of no one cares enough to plan something for my birthday.  

So I go to my b!+(3$ house to visit because they are a part of my soul family. I arrive and am asked if I would like tea, then what flavor and before I can answer, the flavor I would have selected was selected for me. My tea is prepared with honey and placed in my hands in a “friends are sisters we pick” type of mug and I can’t hold the tears in.  My friends took care of me without me asking, without me putting in any input, and they cared for me and I lost it.  Then I was hustled to the couch and wrapped in a blanket.

Soo…all of this to encourage you to take care of the person who seems like they can handle everything, that have the big hearts, that care for others.  It doesn’t have to be a grand or expensive gesture…a simple cup of tea can make a person feel like they matter.