Your community, neighbourhood, the people next door, people in your own home, you... everyone together matters. So this week I have started homeschooling my daughter. This year my baby turns five and no I’m not okay with it. It has been good, circle time, learning new songs, morning devotions, Simon says exercise, practising in our workbook and spending an hour or two in the afternoons outside.
Community - parks, woods, mountains - it’s about people and it’s about where you are. We are currently living in a community surrounded by mountains, lakes, rivers and flat wooded walking areas. We love it so much. I take the kids out, walk for about 2+ kilometres and we talk about all the animals we want to get, we run and chase and laugh our way through the forest and say hello to those we pass.
It is life giving. It is glorious. We come back refreshed, energized and ready to make dinner, free play and eat, bathe, read and sleep.
Routine, we thrive on it. But not just routine, I was reading about rituals the other day. Creating the ordinary everyday things into something special, something on purpose. To not just be and live and do on autopilot but to live and be and do it all on purpose. To look into your child’s eyes or spouse, friend, pet - whoever you connect with and take a second. Feel it, breathe it and be intentional. Routine, reading the same book before bed and letting the questions flow, not minding the hundredth interruption. Making breakfast and eating it together, joining your children at the table, eating, listening - don’t miss a minute of it.
If this is an impossible ideal for you that’s okay. Take and give the intentional you can. Not every second of every minute of each day. Take what you can. Give what you can. You won’t ever regret it. And listen, listen to your children, your spouse, those speaking to you, your own inner voice - listen because you will hear what each one is crying out for. What each one needs and wants. That’s how you can give without running out of steam, without burning out. Give what will matter.
Sleep when you can, eat good food when you can, kiss and hug your children all of the time and do something/anything that you have energy for that will matter to your spouse. And girl, put that show on and get your shower on and don’t feel bad about it for even a second.
Keep seeking the sunshine and healing,
Laura
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