I’m going to be honest with you. I spend the majority of my days in a haze of just barely getting by. It’s mid-winter, so at least one of my girls is sick with a cold. Or a flu. Or a general body aching, middle-of-the-night puking illness. I rise before the sun does to shove another load of laundry in the washer, ignore all the clean clothes piled up next to the dryer, step on LEGOS that were dumped out of their bucket at six oh four am, and try and concoct some sort of breakfast that contains at least two food groups.
I shuffle my oldest to the bus stop and fret over her little Kindergarten ears hearing profanity on it, but suck it up because I can’t do everything, including drive her to school in the morning. I’ve gotta get home and hop on my work email. With a toddler on my hip and a phone perched on my shoulder connecting me to a meeting on content priorities, I fill my hours with as much as I can tackle. By the end of the day. I have exactly zero mental energy to spare.
Inevitably, this means that some to-do items never seem to get crossed off of the list. It’s the stuff that requires my attention–like scheduling in some self-care or tending to insurance changes–but seem vague in their actual fulfillment that I always put off. I rarely know where or how I’m supposed to begin.
Call in the Experts
While I can’t exactly outsource self-care (no one is going to take a yoga class for me), I can carve out a few minutes of my day to speak with someone at Reliable Insurance Agency. As an independent, Northern Minnesota-based insurance agency, the company will help me take the guesswork out of my family’s coverage. They work to connect me to reliable, financially-sound insurance companies and help me develop a personal plan that will work with my needs and my budget.
My littlest has a complex medical diagnosis and I’m constantly stressed about our health insurance coverage; should we apply for medicaid as secondary, what’s my next step in filing a claim, do we need to move to a higher deductible plan? Working through these questions with someone who knows the ins and outs of the process and has a professional working relationship with our primary insurance company saves me both my time–I don’t have to call twelve different 800 numbers or hunt around websites–and my sanity.
Life Insurance
Working with Reliable Insurance Agency is also a good idea if you’re seeking out life insurance, or looking to supplement your current plan. Sometimes moms get so bogged down by the day-to-day that the big picture stuff–what we’d do if something happen to the family–gets lost in the shuffle. But it’s important to have both a secure plan in place and a knowledge of what that plan consists of. Reliable agents will customize your life insurance plan to your needs so you can breathe easier (ie: not wake up in a cold sweat at 3 am and wonder what would happen to your children if the bug bite on your shoulder turns deadly).
No Obligations
I know you’ve got a thousand phone calls to make this week. Your schedule is full for foreseeable future and you aren’t sure you can add another thing to your full plate. But if you’ve been meaning to tidy up your insurance plans, ask specific questions, or just check out your options, you can call Reliable Insurance Agency and they’ll walk you through a free, no obligation review. Or if, like me, you’re a total introvert and want to take that first step without having to talk to a real, live person, you can get a quote right on their website. It takes roughly the same amount of time as it does to eat half a bowl of your kid’s leftover mac and cheese. Trust me, I know this from experience.
Let Reliable Insurance Agency do the heavy-lifting for you and use your free time and mental space to join me in yoga class. Just don’t laugh at my form; I’m a little rusty.
