Quite frankly, Right now, I'm just very overwhelmed with life. Every part of it. I can't keep up at school or at home. My to-do list seems never ending. I'm struggling to be still and have patience with my middle, and many days I'm crying on the way to school wondering why mornings are such hell. Honestly, I just don't feel like enough. For anybody. I don't feel like anybody is getting my best, and I'm feeling like what should be the best time of the year for me, the encore of another 365 days, is quickly coming and going right before my eyes. And while it would be easy to just let it keep going, keep flashing, keep passing, I can't let that happen. That's not what I want my kids to remember about these years.
I want them to remember that there are times when people need you and you need people, and that is what we are here on this Earth to do. To be a net for people. To remind others that we can do hard things and that this world is a brutiful place where we stick together and remember that love wins. So when you are needed, you drop your normal schedule for awhile-maybe an hour, maybe a month, and you be a net because someday you will need that net, and they will be there to catch you.
BUT I also want them to remember that it's important to still live in the midst of all the chaos, even when it's easy to let the days pass by because you're too exhausted to be alive. Today is Friday, and I'm going to go live this weekend, and come back to add to this post because darnit....my kids deserve to live even when I'm tired, and I WILL find some small things to enjoy!!!!!
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Here we are. It's Sunday night, and I promised you I'd come alive and remember to show that to my kiddos. So here's how we spent our weekend. It looked a whole lot like Christmas up in here.
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| My most treasured Christmas decoration. It was my mom's. She gave it to me when I moved out on my own with Jaedyn for my first Christmas. I remember winding up everyday before I went to school and every night before bed. It symbolizes creating new beautiful memories with my children so they have stories to tell their own kids someday. This is my favorite time of year for so many reasons but mostly for the way it brings family together. |
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| I love the look of wonder on his face. It makes my heart happy. |
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| I know he's my child because this is what he put on when I told him to put on something comfy after church....Jammies #forthewin |
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| She's getting too old to lift up like this, but hey...Tradition is tradition. |
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| Nothing says good old fashioned family time like cuddling up with your family in front of the new fireplace your husband gave you for Christmas and watching the first Christmas movie of the season, lights all aglow and fireplace blazin'. |
And here are a couple of small things I've enjoyed this past week.
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| The layout of the new Omaha outlet mall. My ladies and I are ready for spring so we can go on our 4th annual Girls Shopping Weekend! |
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| Cutting down the perfect tree |
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| Borrowing the fireplace for a cozy picture after some hot cider and hot chocolate |
If you can’t remember how to feed
yourself but you remember what joy is: BE STILL. YOU HAVE TO GET STILL BEFORE
YOU CAN REALLY GET UP. GOD MADE EVERYTHING WONDERFUL AND CREATIVE AND BEAUTIFUL
OUT OF NOTHINGNESS- STILLNESS AND GOD STILL DOES. So find some quiet. 10 – 5
minutes a day. Try this- Travis sent it to us last night:
1) Prepare to pray the Psalm in 5
consecutively diminishing sentences.
2) Either aloud or quietly to yourself, say the words, “Be still and know that I am God”
3) After a couple deep breaths, pray, “Be still and know that I am.”
4) After a couple deep breaths, pray “Be still and know.”
5) After a couple deep breaths, pray, “Be still.”
6) After a couple deep breaths, pray, “Be.”
7) When ready, pray, “Amen.”
2) Either aloud or quietly to yourself, say the words, “Be still and know that I am God”
3) After a couple deep breaths, pray, “Be still and know that I am.”
4) After a couple deep breaths, pray “Be still and know.”
5) After a couple deep breaths, pray, “Be still.”
6) After a couple deep breaths, pray, “Be.”
7) When ready, pray, “Amen.”
The weeks are getting closer to Christmas. This week is Thanksgiving. I need to be present, but oh so alive. Get out there and help someone in need. Stop and thank God for what he's blessed you with. Pay it forward. Enjoy the small things. BE STILL. That is my challenge to myself this week. Just Be Still.
If
you can’t remember how to feed yourself but you remember what joy is:
BE STILL. YOU HAVE TO GET STILL BEFORE YOU CAN REALLY GET UP. GOD MADE
EVERYTHING WONDERFUL AND CREATIVE AND BEAUTIFUL OUT OF NOTHINGNESS-
STILLNESS AND GOD STILL DOES. So find some quiet. 10 – 5 minutes a day.
Try this- Travis sent it to us last night:
1) Prepare to pray the Psalm in 5 consecutively diminishing sentences.
2) Either aloud or quietly to yourself, say the words, “Be still and know that I am God”
3) After a couple deep breaths, pray, “Be still and know that I am.”
4) After a couple deep breaths, pray “Be still and know.”
5) After a couple deep breaths, pray, “Be still.”
6) After a couple deep breaths, pray, “Be.”
7) When ready, pray, “Amen.”
- See more at: http://momastery.com/blog/#sthash.hibhYbpA.dpuf
1) Prepare to pray the Psalm in 5 consecutively diminishing sentences.
2) Either aloud or quietly to yourself, say the words, “Be still and know that I am God”
3) After a couple deep breaths, pray, “Be still and know that I am.”
4) After a couple deep breaths, pray “Be still and know.”
5) After a couple deep breaths, pray, “Be still.”
6) After a couple deep breaths, pray, “Be.”
7) When ready, pray, “Amen.”
- See more at: http://momastery.com/blog/#sthash.hibhYbpA.dpuf
If
you can’t remember how to feed yourself but you remember what joy is:
BE STILL. YOU HAVE TO GET STILL BEFORE YOU CAN REALLY GET UP. GOD MADE
EVERYTHING WONDERFUL AND CREATIVE AND BEAUTIFUL OUT OF NOTHINGNESS-
STILLNESS AND GOD STILL DOES. So find some quiet. 10 – 5 minutes a day.
Try this- Travis sent it to us last night:
1) Prepare to pray the Psalm in 5 consecutively diminishing sentences.
2) Either aloud or quietly to yourself, say the words, “Be still and know that I am God”
3) After a couple deep breaths, pray, “Be still and know that I am.”
4) After a couple deep breaths, pray “Be still and know.”
5) After a couple deep breaths, pray, “Be still.”
6) After a couple deep breaths, pray, “Be.”
7) When ready, pray, “Amen.”
- See more at: http://momastery.com/blog/#sthash.hibhYbpA.dpuf
1) Prepare to pray the Psalm in 5 consecutively diminishing sentences.
2) Either aloud or quietly to yourself, say the words, “Be still and know that I am God”
3) After a couple deep breaths, pray, “Be still and know that I am.”
4) After a couple deep breaths, pray “Be still and know.”
5) After a couple deep breaths, pray, “Be still.”
6) After a couple deep breaths, pray, “Be.”
7) When ready, pray, “Amen.”
- See more at: http://momastery.com/blog/#sthash.hibhYbpA.dpuf
If
you can’t remember how to feed yourself but you remember what joy is:
BE STILL. YOU HAVE TO GET STILL BEFORE YOU CAN REALLY GET UP. GOD MADE
EVERYTHING WONDERFUL AND CREATIVE AND BEAUTIFUL OUT OF NOTHINGNESS-
STILLNESS AND GOD STILL DOES. So find some quiet. 10 – 5 minutes a day.
Try this- Travis sent it to us last night:
1) Prepare to pray the Psalm in 5 consecutively diminishing sentences.
2) Either aloud or quietly to yourself, say the words, “Be still and know that I am God”
3) After a couple deep breaths, pray, “Be still and know that I am.”
4) After a couple deep breaths, pray “Be still and know.”
5) After a couple deep breaths, pray, “Be still.”
6) After a couple deep breaths, pray, “Be.”
7) When ready, pray, “Amen.”
- See more at: http://momastery.com/blog/#sthash.hibhYbpA.dpuf
1) Prepare to pray the Psalm in 5 consecutively diminishing sentences.
2) Either aloud or quietly to yourself, say the words, “Be still and know that I am God”
3) After a couple deep breaths, pray, “Be still and know that I am.”
4) After a couple deep breaths, pray “Be still and know.”
5) After a couple deep breaths, pray, “Be still.”
6) After a couple deep breaths, pray, “Be.”
7) When ready, pray, “Amen.”
- See more at: http://momastery.com/blog/#sthash.hibhYbpA.dpuf
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