No hurry....

"LIFE CAN ONLY BE HELD IN THE LIVES OF THE UNHURRIED".....Ann Voskamp

"Life is not an emergency"...A. Voskamp

Such an opposite way to the way I do life.  It is about "getting in and getting out" forget about the journey.  One would think being a stay at home mom that life would feel more unhurried.  In some moments it does if I choose to live in the moment of the day and realize it certainly is not an emergency to get my "to do's" done today.  But mostly, I feel behind and somewhat scattered lately.  There is such a desire to catch up, to have a clean pallet, to just have what is in front of me for the day instead of the "behind feeling"....the pile of laundry on the couch, the dishes in the sink, the messy play garage that needs to be cleaned again, the blog that needs to be written, the phone calls I have neglected, the hundred emails I need to clean out.

I wonder even if I did not have that list and I lived in a hut with few belongings...would I still live hurriedly?  Would I still be distracted?  Would I still be consumed by what is done and what isn't? 

Is some of it the need to feel productive in this role as a stay at home mom?

What if I decided today that I will run my errands with my kids in an unhurried manner or that I will stop when they ask me to....and is it possible for me to live at rest with things undone?  It just is about choosing it, living through maybe those first few minutes of agony thinking of all that needs to be done and instead still choosing to play trucks or sit with Deveraux and attend to her. 

 One day, during a nap time for Anderson, I finished what I was doing and I felt I needed to spend one on one time with Dev.  I went in and said, "I want to spend time with you."  Her face completely lit up!

It is worth trying....