The other day we welcomed sprummer which is what I'm calling the week we had here that was around 90 degrees F the entire week. I even had to buy my oldest daughter new shorts ahead of schedule because it was that warm. It was a fantastic week. Now that spring has officially returned with warmish days and cooler nights I look back on that week with gratitude.
Since we are creating a race of humans that are solely dependent on computers for almost everything I have started to drastically limit the time my children spend on electronic devices, with my husbands full cooperation and approval, love that man. They must play with their toys that have been sitting around collecting eye space in my already cramped apartment or go outside. However, that sole week now has all three of them begging me to open the patio doors so they can play in the little side yard just outside our apartment. Then when it is time to come in for meals or just a good ol' fashioned bath/bedtime they stomp their feet and shed fake tears while they beg to be allowed more time outside. I smile inside while I keep on my 'Mommy said so, now march' face.
A creeping fear of mine is that they would by pass all those wonderful memories that I made growing up as I played outside during the nicer weather, whether it was by myself or with friends. That fear has been squelched. During that week we even kept our oldest out of school one day just to buy her a new bicycle and take a day trip to my parents house. Granted mom and dad weren't home, but they have a beautiful house and plenty of room for the kids to play and even woods for them and their daddy to explore. It was a great day. Sunshine, fun, and playing hooky with the permission of mom and dad and even grandma and pap.
As a society, not just our own country but globally as well, we have sped up our lives and added too much too fast so that we don't have time to stop and enjoy this beautiful planet that we have to enjoy. We say this all the time, however, it's very true. I've come to enjoy the slower pace. I don't like going a million miles per hour. Shoot, my smart phone is probably upset with me because all it gets used for is the occasional text or phone call (really I don't use it a whole lot) and for when my son plays cut the rope on it. Other than that is spends most of it's time sitting on a counter with a mostly dead battery waiting to live to it's fullest potential. Good thing it's not really feeling useless it might have left me a long time ago. Smily face.
To sum up, I'm glad I have children that remind me of the important things in this short life we get. We shouldn't try live in the moment or for the moment because then we are too busy trying to enjoy it that it's over and forgotten before we even remembered why we were trying in the first place. I feel like we need to slow ourselves down. Take some stuff off our plate so that when the moment to be enjoyed comes we won't be trying to live in it we will be living in it because those slow recaptured moments will begin to mean more than the rat race we fell into when we tripped over our smart phones.
Don't be silent
Leigha
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