August 21, 2008

  • Where did the days go?

    My head is still spinning from the week my family had.  Where did the time and days go?  We have resumed our full homeschool schedule.  We also started our Fall Session at the gymnastics which means two weeks of paper work and scrambling to get everyone where they go.  We are continuing to can and freeze fruits and vegetables.  I have enormous piles of little kid clothing to sort, wash and store.  We switched some rooms around in our home (much needed) and now the basement play room is an absolute disaster.  (The end of this disaster is not in sight.  )  So, if you come to visit, we will politely avoid that room.  My to do list is four thousand six hundred and twelve to do's long.  (Maybe I'm exaggerating a teensy bit.) 

    As I paused a few moments this evening I read something that makes me care a little less about my to do list (all four thousand six hundred twelve to do's). 

    What a Mother Must Sacrifice at Holy Experience. 

    I am reminded that I want to give my best to my children.  Not just the left over moments of each day.  I want to purposefully give them the best moments of each day.  Even when I'm tired.  Even when I just don't feel like it.  Even when I have "more important" things to do.  They are the "more important" things to do.  They are given to me by my Heavenly Father to love and teach.  I'm to show them his ways.  The ways of their Creator, the one who sacrificed far beyond my measly sacrifice.