The
list for today includes: folding 5-6 loads of laundry and returning them to
their proper locations, washing the sink-full of dishes, putting on the
crockpot for dinner, feeding the kids lunch and getting everyone down for naps
on time, writing up a list of things needed for the family to go out of town for
vacation, getting the kids and myself out of the house on time for small group
tonight with dinner in our bellies and shoes on our feet (hope everything in
between ends up on us as well!!), get to the store so that we have food to eat
tomorrow morning, and about a million other little things that I can’t even
think of right now that will inevitably come up between now and bedtime.
The thing is that I’ve been doing none
of those things right now. Instead I’ve been reading tons and tons of
resolutions from random people that I don’t know. All of the resolutions talk
about what people want to do with their summers. There was so much variety. Some
people just wanted to enjoy a sunset each day, others wanted to stick to the
much dreaded and difficult weight loss plan, and the list went on.
I did notice a trend that is so
easy to talk about, but much harder to put into practice with the daily list of
hundreds of things we all want to accomplish. So many people kept saying how
they wanted to spend more time with the children or be more thankful for their
kids: spend more time playing with them, enjoy them in the sunshine, treasure
them at the various stages in which they may be.
Of course, this strikes something in me,
because I get my lists going and get my target in sight, and all else just
becomes a distraction in the path of what I want to accomplish. And that’s me
just forgetting what is really important in this life. Humanity.
Sooooo…. I’m getting off the computer
and I’m going to read a book or two or probably a whole stack since it’s what
my kids love. And I’m going to take a ½ hour and just love on my kids. My list isn’t
going anywhere. Unfortunately!
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