Enjoy Moments With Your Kids

Lately I have forced myself to stop. I need to relax. I definitely need to be more aware. I don't know why or how we become so hurried and busy. It would be easy to claim that life forces us to become that way but that would be untrue. Allowing ourselves to become caught up in mostly unimportant things is our own fault.

I have literally looked at myself in the mirror and told myself, "Don't screw this up. These are your children. And if you screw this up, nothing else matters." While I have become almost obsessed with ensuring that all of the laundry gets washed and folded and the dishes get cleaned and the floor gets vacuumed and the bills get paid and the dog gets walked and the yard gets cleaned up and dinner gets made on time and on and on and on . . . I have most certainly missed out on some pretty cool stuff with my children. I have missed moments that could have been if only I were present.

And its one of those things when at the end of the day, all of the housework might be done and everything is neat and tidy and in order, but the world would have been just fine if not everything were in proper order. As mother's, we desperately need to set aside those unessential activities that seem to consume our day and focus on the reasons why we became mother’s in the first place. In today’s world, we must do this now more than ever.

Each day, it has become my earnest endeavor to do just that. While it is almost impossible to let things slide all day, I wake up early before the kids and ready myself for the day. It is the morning time that I get as much done as possible. The kids run around and play together while I focus on getting as much done as possible in those morning hours.

The afternoon is then devoted to my children. For a few hours, we play outside, read books, cook together, go to the park, or even watch a movie. Whatever the activity, we are together. And the kids don’t care what we do. But they do care that I am there laughing, and singing, and just being silly.

That is my challenge to you.

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