Balance

I'm sitting here thinking about balance as my 5 year old is huddled against my knee begging for my attention. She's an interesting little girl with more questions than they day has seconds and I have less than half of the answers. I'm so proud of her. She makes me smile and giggle and then look at who I am as a person and the desire to change becomes quite strong. There are so many flaws within that I become so focused on them sometimes that it's hard to see who or what I am supposed to be changing for. That's where the balance part comes in to play. Is the house work really that important as opposed to the reading assignment my daughter has for her kindergarten class (yes, she is reading at a first grade level and I'm very proud of her)? Yes, they are both important, but in that moment which task is the more important. I guess this is where intuition and motherhood comes into play sometimes the former trumps the latter and vice versa, you just have to be aware of everything that is going on around you and as a mother you find the more experienced and more children you add that it's much easier to do this than you think.

In life we have to understand that there is a time and a place for everything and that deciding which is what and what its which is very important. Life now a days is not what it use to be and I'm sure everyone will agree with me. Gone are the days of lazy summer afternoons spent sipping ice cold lemonade on the porch just enjoying the moment. We have programed ourselves into a rat race where every second is deemed to valuable to waste and yet by doing so we are squandering our lives.

So how does balance come into play? How doesn't it? Slow down and think about what you are doing and can it wait. We do so much work on computers and smart phones that it is just so very simple to push pause/save and let the work wait while we either tend to that fight between our children, talk to our spouse about whatever they need to discuss, or just take that time to enjoy the moment and make that special memory, even if it includes reading that ever so important book, or chapter in a book to your child right before bed. There is so much more to life than work and connecting to the umpteen social networks that there are now. Balance and focus is just what the doctor ordered and it's about time.




Don't be Silent
Leigha