I am usually tired when I get up and I can't remember the last time I got up when I wanted to. BUT I like mornings. All the kids are in their pjs and we just kind of hang out for that first little while. They are all more cuddly then than at any other time of day and there is nothing like cuddles from my boys. Now that the kids are bigger I don't have to make sure breakfast is made and fed to them immediately. We can wake up a bit first. It's still dark out and we stay fairly mellow for a bit. So - even though I have 4 boys ages 3 and under, it's fairly peaceful for that first little while. It's nice.
Stay in your lane. Don't look at other people's papers. Those couple of lines jumped out at me as I read Maria Goff's book " Love Lives Here" It reminded me that we can't all live the same life. Comparisons hold us back and discourage us like nothing else. We have fears of being different when we are SUPPOSED to be different. I grew up trying to fit in and not doing a very good job at it. When I was in my teens I thought I'd try a new approach so I started trying to be the opposite of what I was because I thought that is what everyone else wanted me to be. I am chatty and energetic and I tried to be dainty and quiet. I didn't do a very good job of that either. Yikes. Trying to be someone we're not is exhausting and it doesn't work. We seldom fool anyone or achieve the goal we thought we wanted. What we all really want I think, is to connect with one another and to matter. As an adult I have had goals and held them up against other p...
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Sounds like you have a pretty special crew!