Time (or lack thereof)

Wow! I was finishing up some stuff on the Internet tonight, and thought I'd check out Blogger and my friends' blogs. After enjoying their stories, I clicked on my own blog and saw that very pathetically, my last entry was in March. It was fun going back and reading those entries that I made last winter, but I truly don't know where I found the time to write them! However, I know I loved writing them, posting the pictures, and just finding time to write--which in a former life I used to do quite often.

Life is busy. For some time I had decided to wipe that word from my vocabulary because most of the time we make the time for things we truly care about and sometimes "busy" can be just an excuse. The reason we haven't called a dear friend, yet still found time to read a book on baking bread in 5 minutes a day. The reason we haven't finished responding to e-mails, but somehow still found time to post comments on facebook. The reason we can't do our daily Bible devotions, yet made time to read several of the latest magazines.

"Time management" is really about making choices on how to spend the time we have, and we all have the same 1440 minutes a day to choose how to spend.

And so, I'm trying to have balance in my life. It's a daily struggle between playing with the kids, spending time with Mark, keeping the house kinda sanitary, doing laundry, baking and cooking, working for the church, and making time for me too (aka the stuff I loved to do before I had kids). I'm trying to have less "that was a waste of time" moments and more "I'm so glad I made time for that" moments. I'm trying to work efficiently at the stuff I dislike (housework!), and slow down enough to appreciate Isabelle's ballet steps, Henry's block towers, and Lucy's cuddles.

So, I'd love to promise that I'll be blogging more, but I just may be "busy" -- playing hide and seek.