Savoring the Present Moment
Roo savors his pizza (from about 1 year ago).
My friend Sarah writes a wonderful blog about food and family and life. She will often mention something that will get me to thinking.
(She also tolerates my boys being more aggressive toward her little girl more than I’d like. A real gift, thank you Sarah!)
Here was my comment one of her recent entries.
“Your post makes me think… this is one the flipside blessings to my rigorously demanding version of motherhood. I tend to be a dreamer, planner, and plotter as well. This can be good in it’s place, but it does prevent living and cherishing the moment I have right in front of me, which is a shame. But right now, my only hope is to live in the moment I’m in. I have no energy in this season for doing much plotting and planning at all. If I try, it quickly becomes a frustration. I am a person who never sits still, and God has given me the job of sitting in the dark and quiet with my sons for hours each day, while I’m awake. It’s my biggest burden and my biggest gift. And it won’t last forever…”
Love Roo there! So great. Not sure what to say about the dark and quiet. Yeah, you know what I mean.
I am with you on the planning! I want to know what’s going to happen ahead of time and it’s really hard when I don’t. I hate it when I have no control of my schedule! Sometimes, God gives us jobs that are hard for us to teach us…I’m glad you are learning something through the hard times…some people don’t! they would just complain! Love you, Naomi.
Hey–he’s eating! xoxo
Sarahmk, thanks for noticing! It’s pizza… and amazingly enough, there’s nothing in this picture that confirms anything made it all the way to his stomach. Sigh. That was about 15 months ago.. by 12 months ago he was down to a little chocolate milk and a little of one particular kind of toddler graham cracker. It was like a hunger strike vigil or somthing. Ugh! So glad to have those days a year behind us now.
Sharlene, thank you! It’s such a blessing to reconnect with you after all these years through this blog. I’ve done plenty of complaining, to be sure, but I’ve been working on how to manage the hard things quite awhile now.