The little boys have been in school for one week. I have organized and shopped and got projects done like crazy. I've done more in the past week than I could usually accomplish in a month!! It has been exhilarating to work on a project, even for only 2 hours, without interruption. Or to run out to the store right when I need something! I'm tired after a long day of moving furniture around and moving books and boxes and all of the 'clutter' that a person accumulates. It's nice to get rid of a lot of it and to remember the good stuff that is worth keeping. We've also had two swimming lessons and all the kids are doing well. Last week, Caden started piano lessons again. He's struggling with wanting to practice so we'll see how it goes. He likes it once he gets going and accomplishes something. I stocked the freezer with meals for a month so I don't have to think about that during the day. I just pop something in the crock pot and off I go. All of this also explains why I haven't blogged much. Hopefully once the dust settles, I can update people better and take more pictures again. In some ways I feel like a different person now that I get these little blocks of time to sort things out. It's a new phase that's for sure. So, all that to say, it's been a good week!
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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