Life has been just about as busy and stressful here lately as I can ever remember it being. I am homeschooling the boys, which adds a couple of extra hours of work to our list of "daily expectations" (that is without considering fussing/whining/complaining time). I'm continuing work as a doula, which brings me joy but also entails a good number of evenings away at work. And of course once or twice a month everything gets dropped while I attend a birth. We're in the process of buying a house - I have never read, signed, scanned and emailed so many pieces of paper in my life. Escrow was supposed to close last week but...we're still working on it. I was in a car accident a little over a week ago and got a bad enough case of whiplash to need to see the chiropractor 2-3 times each week. Ouch. Next month Father David is retiring and I'm helping organize the creation of a memory book for him. It is a grand project and will be spectacular when it is finished, but oh my, the emails! The phone calls! The cutting and pasting (both digital and physical)! Then we're involved in a church plant and I am the new liturgist and choir director (oh joy! oh terror!) And believe it or not, my boys all seem to think they should still get fed at regular intervals and have clean clothes to wear! I know, I think they're quite unreasonable too.
So when
SarahMarie asked me to participate in her "
The One Thing" link up, my initial response (in her comment section) was this:
I probably ought to join in on this, but I have so many dang THINGS TO
DO that it sounds almost laughably impossible. . . maybe I will get a large
box of chocolates, curl up on the couch, and read about your
accomplishments instead. That sounds far more achievable. can that be
my one thing?
And I still feel that way. Only maybe not so gently stated. Perhaps something more like "I HAVE TOO MANY THINGS TO DO AND TOO MANY PEOPLE WHO NEED ME AND I'M GOING TO CRY IF ANYONE ASKS ME TO DO ANYTHING ELSE!"
So you know what? I did one thing last
week. And since I'm totally not kidding about the insane quantity of things that I
must do, I'm going to be proud of that one thing for the week. Actually two things, since I'm pretty sure blogging about it should count. :)
Sarah, you're right that it helps. Every time I look at my counter with it's pretty fall decorations, it makes me smile. Thank you for the nudge to keep trying for beauty and small accomplishments in my life.
3 comments:
Good for you! And wow, all that you have going on is making my head spin. Liturgist and choir director, my goodness. I keep thinking I want to do Sarah's posting thing, but between time and my complete lack of short term memory (someday this baby will sleep through the night, right??) it just isn't coming together. Maybe next week?
Oh my goodness, that is a LOT. My head just started spinning reading that. I think focusing on one thing does help. Have you read the LMLD blog today? It addresses this same thing!
Wow, you do indeed have a LOT going on.
Some days my "One Thing" ends up being starting and finishing a project (like going to the plant nursery, getting mums, and getting them in the ground), but more often than now I would consider that at least two things. :) You probably did more than one thing just to make that beautiful spot ... you cleaned your counter (unless it was already clean, in which case I'm not sure I can consider you my sister anymore), bought those items, and made the arrangement.
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