When my kids were little, I took pride in limiting activities so that we could carve out valued family time. On Friday nights we saved dinner for our extended family and we made every single Saturday night family night with just our covey of four. Sundays were for worship and rest, and by Monday we were charged up and ready for our week of work and school.
But as the years have progressed, our family calendar has filled with sports, volunteer positions, extracurricular activities, and other extensive obligations that rob us from precious time together. Our school-aged kids are older now and have events scheduled more frequently and for longer durations. With this new family status there also sits the somber realization that we only have X more years with each child. We feel the strong desire to maximize those years with quality and quantity opportunities and life experiences.
And it leaves our home.... HECTIC!!
Have you felt this way? Perhaps you find yourself in a different stage of life from us. Perhaps your kids are still little and you are walking through your day in a half zombie-like state and dreaming of someday achieving eight consecutive hours of sleep. Or perhaps you find that your children will soon or recently just left the nest and you have filled your schedule with new opportunities. Or perhaps you are retired and wonder how you ever had time to work a full-time job with as busy as you find yourself now. Wherever you are...Have you felt HECTIC?
This blog is created to offer tips and hints to help you navigate through the busy years; To help you reclaim precious minutes of your day that can be invested into things in which you are passionate. I don't have it all figured out...I just enjoy any help I can get and I love to pass it along.
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