I like to live in the fast lane.
I am always impatient to get to my destination. Once there, I look around for a few minutes, and then I am on to something new. A newer, better, more interesting place.
But life for me is starting to break the sound barrier, it seems.
I don't understand how I was barely done "back to school" shopping in August (well before school was starting), and then somehow missed the sale (let alone first crop) of Halloween costumes the first week of September.
Next thing I knew, Christmas decorations were floating around amidst Thanksgiving decor. (And it wasn't just Costco--they seem to be thinking of Christmas in July.)
Perhaps I could try to ignore all the commercial signals that speed life up, but still, my life seems to move at mach 2 and keeps getting faster. All the busyness, the running around that I do on a daily basis . . . sprinting to school, running errands for 2.5 hours and then sprinting back . . . and popping in the house for a bite for lunch and then shuttling the kids somewhere else . . . Well, time flys by at break-neck speeds already.
When does it slow down?
I'm sure life gets a bit slower at 60, but I'd really like to savour the moments I live in right now.
Like sitting at the table, dunking cookies into milk and chatting with my kids about their day.
Or taking the afternoon off to go to a pumpkin patch and hand pick out our own pumpkins.
Or just being a little more relaxed and able to be more patient when someone can't run out the door without tucking each new bug into their proper "bug bed"--in the garden, I hope.
How do you slow life down?
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Hmmm. I don't know. I think the last several general conferences have touched on this, especially in regards to out children, not having them in too many activities that they don't have free time to just lay on their backs and look at the clouds in the sky. I know my mom had me quit debate team in high school because she didn't like that it took me away from the family so much, and just made my life way too busy. I would say prioritize what is most important and then cut some things out. I know we feel like we have to be these supermoms, but I don't really think we can be if life is stressing us out and we aren't enjoying it because we are barely making it from one thing to the next. I think in life we will always have to be playing the balancing act. I guess the talk on good, better, best also applies here to really well. Remember when Brad was on his mission and he wrote home and was saying how tough a mission is, and we were like, whatever, real life is so hard because we have to balance and juggle all of this stuff, where as a missionary you have one focus? Preschool is the first thing that I have had to deal with as a parent that is scheduled for me, not something I plan to do, so I can't say my life is crazy. I know that as the kids get older though that changes as they start having lessons and things. One thing that I have decided is that I don't want my kids doing more than one sport a season. I see Robbie's siblings doing cross country and soccer in the same season, throw in AP classes, and a play, and music lessons, and they are worn soo thin and they are never home, so busy going from one thing to the next. It is too much. Kids need to develop their talents, but they don't have to continue playing each sport all year long. Anyways, that's my two cents plus some. I'm kind of like the person though that gives advice about parenting who has no children when it comes to this subject, since I'm not dealing with kids that are involved in activities. We plan on enrolling Jared in soccer this next summer since he will be 4 and can participate this summer. So, I'll let you know how my life changes then...
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