I look forward to the weekend. I savor sleeping in on Saturday and Sunday morning, even if just for an extra 30-60 minutes. Sunday afternoons are typically relaxed and casual at our house. We play games, read books, watch a movie, or even nap!
This weekend was non-stop.
I don't mind having fun and enjoying activities with my family. But I have also learned that when we don't have any "down-time" over the weekend, the whole next week I seem to grow increasingly weary.
This weekend, we had a drive-in movie event at our school. I arrived at school at 7:30 am on Friday and didn't leave until 10:30 pm. The event was fun and we had a huge turnout. However, I literally dropped into the bed when we got home.
Saturday, we had a soccer game for Andy- he got to play goalie and was SO excited. That was followed by Noah's first flag football game - he caught an interception! Blake had a soccer game right after that. We did laundry, tidied up around the house and went to purchase a new ceiling fan.
Today, we had church, lunch, brought our nephew home to play, drove to Willisburg for Greg to pick up a large army truck and water containers for the Capital City River Dash next weekend and came home. Greg spent the afternoon working on the River dash. I did more laundry, took down shower curtains and liners, took all pieces of clothing out of my closet, reorganized, got rid of some, swapped out some articles for seasons and replaced them all in closet. I put away all the boys' clean laundry, fixed dinner for all the boys plus my two nieces that arrived at 6:30. I then took all seven children to the park at a local school two blocks from our house. We came home and all the boys got haircuts and showers. I picked out clothes for everyone for tomorrow, went through Friday folders and signed papers for school, got backpacks andlunchboxes ready for tomorrow, signed agenda books with reading and math logs, re-hung shower curtains and did more laundry. We made soup for tomorrow's dinner. At 10:30 pm, I collapsed on the couch to watch the taped premiere of my favorite show and I am finally going to bed.
I'd love to say that I feel well rested and ready to greet tomorrow, but sadly, I am tired.
I'd also love to say that this week is a slow one. But it is not. We have four boys' with sports practices, picture day at school, and parent teacher conferences this week, I have a board meeting for a local non-profit, we have family coming in to town and the River dash this weekend.
Our pastor spoke today about how the busy-ness of life often blinds us from God's work in and around us. It is often good things that keep us busy and our ears are not given the time to be trained to hear His voice and His leading. I am praying for opportunities to say NO this week. I am praying for moments where God leads me to quiet, still waters, even for just 15 minutes at a time to rest in his presence. I am also praying for God's provision of rest, energy and patience. It will be in high demand this week. I am also praying for moments to be intentional with my kids. I sat and played cars and Legos with Jake last night when I needed to be doing laundry. I took them to the park today, despite the work waiting at home. I want to take notice of the important moments to just be present with my kids this week and seize them!
In what ways do you feel busy? Can you identify with this feeling? How do you balance it all and stay sane?.
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