Just curious...have you started a gratitude journal? Have you started paying attention to the good gifts in your life? Or are your intentions for beginning that "new project" scheduled for....tomorrow? If you are making time to read blogs, may I challenge you to stop. Right now. Go find an odd, currently unused notebook (we all have them lying around, don't we?) and a pen and stick them under your pillow. That's it. Then you can come back to your blogging.
The life we live does not stop. Just like the To-Do list is never finished, life rarely gives us a breather. I don't know about you, but a common phrase running through my head is, "I really should be doing..." There is always something I feel like I should be doing other than the fun thing I'd rather be doing. I really should wipe down the baseboards, iron those clothes, scrub that bathroom floor, get Bud started on that school project. What I want to do is spend some time scrapping, or decorating for fall, or practicing my crocheting. But there's no time! I'll have to put those off until, yes, you guessed it...tomorrow!
In reality, what is the harm in delaying the scrubbing of the floor an hour while I bring out ceramic pumpkins and silk leaves? Am I not making a home for my family? What do I want my children to remember of their childhood? A clean home with an unhappy mom, or a warm, inviting home (slightly less clean) with a warm, inviting mom? It's about recognizing the things that make me happy and spending some time at them. Then the dull To-Do list isn't so bad. Like Mary Poppins sings, "Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down!"
Gratitude for yesterday:
a bird with its fluffed out feathers sitting in the lilac bush outside my kitchen window
the smell of ginger cookies baking
the smiles of my boyos as they eat those cookies
Classical Christmas music
watching Bud do his math with ease and confidence
hot coffee with half and half
What's on your list?
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