Today I have a long to do list…I need to be at the lake house working on touch up paint and painting a bedroom. I am expecting a delivery of furniture this afternoon. I need to take bedding and decor over to the house (getting it out of my front bedroom.) I also need to give my pups a bath, do some laundry, go grocery shopping, try to spend some quality time with the hubby before he leaves this week for work… the list of to do’s is long and seemingly endless.
Now just in case you didn’t know, I live in Missouri, where it seems that it has been raining for at least 30 out of 30 days! Of course it is pouring down rain today!!! So I will be postponing the puppies bath once again, putting off any outside work that needs done, being extremely careful about maintaining the dryness of the items I need to move from house to house and running the dehumidifier at the lake house at full blast while I am painting. No choice but to get these things done…
My husband said to me the other day “you don’t have time to breath with all you do…” That might have been a bit of a slight exaggeration, might have been in response to me dragging him out to 4 different thrift stores in the pouring rain in search of night stands… but it made me pause for a minute.
We all have busy lives. I am sure everyone I know has a to do list that is just as long as mine, if not longer…but, we need to remember to take a breath sometimes. We spent that afternoon shopping in the rain, but we were together. We laughed, we searched together for the right pieces for the lake house. We talked about different things that are going on in our lives, we even argued a little( we always have a different opinion on things, and we are both stubborn, lol)
My point is even when we are super busy, take the time to spend with those you love. Include them in the work you are doing, play a little, don’t take for granted the time we have with each other.
Over the last week, we had dinner with my in-laws, and then dinner with friends. It felt so good to spend time not thinking about what needed done at the lake house, what needed done at the new house, what needed done at my job, etc, etc…I have been so busy, I wasn’t taking the time to relax for even a minute…lesson learned.
So today, I will once again be dragging that man along with me. He has work to do there too, (he does electrical work, sound systems, etc…) So we will be together. I cherish the time we spend together because often he is gone and we spend time together by texting, calling and FaceTime. We will get done what we can off that stupidly long list and call it good for today, then we will come home and spend the evening watching tv and relaxing.( I put those items on the list too!)
I hope you all have a great day and take a little time to spend with those you cherish…God bless and I wish you enough!!
SuzysPlace 