After being under the weather all weekend, then Monday turning into a sick day home from school, yesterday’s return to normal was much needed for all of us. She couldn’t wait to go back to school and see her friends. He couldn’t wait to go back to school and read books on the bean bag he has claimed as his own. And when they were both home for the day, I looked through her folder at the pages of homework that had accumulated just from missing one day. Have I mentioned she’s only in kindergarten? That’s a rant for another day. I said forget it, go outside and play. They ran up and down over and over while I swept and cleaned up the front porch. The giggles and glee was too much for me and I stopped working and started playing. We tumbled, ran, tagged, and played. It was just what we needed.
Life *is* simple. Days don’t have to be made up of moment after moment of leisure. There’s a lot of hard work that goes into it. There’s a lot of stress, a lot of stuff that needs to get done, a lot of things that get in the way of the moments of peace. For me, what makes it all so simple is being able to stop when those really great moments do arrive and to just be part of them. Just let them happen, be in those moments 100%, knowing that it won’t last. Knowing that there is homework to do and dinner to be made and lunch to be packed and everything else. But letting that all go to just sit back and enjoy for a little while. Let the littlest moments like siblings playing, running, holding hands, laughing, be so much bigger than it might have been if they had slipped by unnoticed.
you could not have said that any better. I hope you are planning to print the second picture. It is amazing.
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Love the way you think. Thanks for sharing. That pic of the two of your kiddos together is SO sweet!
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lovely post emily!
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What a beautiful post and reminder. Thank you.
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Such a nice post
Glad I stopped by!
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Isn’t that the truth? I was just telling my husband that no matter how much I do there is always another pile of important things I didn’t get to. It never ends unless we make it stop!!!
Your kids are so sweet…
xoxo
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I always enjoy your sweet photos! I envy kids… they have no to do lists yet. That’s the best when we can just run and play with them.
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What wonderful photos – they really capture the title of your post. Sometimes I have to catch myself and make myself slow down and be in the moment. It’s easy to get caught up in all the things that need doing.
I couldn’t believe the homework my daughter had in K & 1st grade. That’s one of the reasons we started to homeschool – just to slow down and let her be a kid!
Manuela
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I love this post, thank you!
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