My life and schedule is bonkers. It's totally over scheduled with no feasible way to slow down. A short list of my life: Driving kids everywhere, dance class, acting responsibilities, preschool, homework, my job, cleaning, cooking, shopping, errands, church responsibilities, not enough sleep, always somewhere we have to be..... it's an exhausting pace. I have no time for hobbies or those things that make my heart happy. We literally do not have one day a week that nothing was planned. I'm tired just typing it all out. I'm sure a lot of people relate in our country. Is the cultural normal to live like this. A frenzied pace where nothing gets our full attention. Spread way too thin, but not knowing how to change it. And then, we were forced to stop. The Corona Virus hit. I got laid off, my kids' schools are all closed. All activities were cancelled. We aren't having play dates, we are isolating ourselves. The entire country at this point is homeschooling their kids and either working from home, not working, or going to work completely stressed about getting exposed. The whole country at this point was forced to just STOP. Stop everything. As Americans we are relearning how to be still. Teaching our kids. We are cooking more (or just learning how to cook for the first time!). We are spending family time together, working on home projects, giving our hobbies attention. We are appreciating things we used to take for granted. I'm hoping once this is all over and our society gets up and moving again, a few things are different. I hope we are closer to our families. I hope we realize how amazing our teachers are. They are all worried about your kids right now and doing everything they can to help them and make this experience easier for them. I hope we slow the heck down as a whole society. I hope that the stigma of homeschooling is gone. Experienced home schooling parents are the rock stars right now. They are all sharing their information, links and tips and helping their overwhelmed friends. They are freely helping and encouraging those same friends who judged their choice to home school previously. I hope everyone has learned how to properly wash their hands. Like seriously. I hope people have picked up the things that give them joy. Gardening, writing, music, art, crafts, creating just to make your heart happy. I hope we have a better sense of community. We had become so isolated. Now I see people offering to pick items up for their neighbors when they venture out to the store. People caring for the elderly and frail. Everyone is banding together to try to keep everyone safe. It warms my heart. It's how it should be. Let's come out of this as a better society, everyone.
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My dad taught me some pretty valuable life lessons. When stuff happens, I can still hear Him whispering in my ear. Right now, I can hear him saying this:
Just be still and accept where you are. I see so many people upset, angry, frustrated and expending a lot of mental energy fighting against what’s happening right now. You know where that will get you? NOWHERE. Nothing will change. Situation remains the same. You can either be calm, centered and focused on your family, hobbies, and home projects you have been putting off and accept that this is where we are right now with your butt in your house. Or You can rage, obsessively blame people, declare what was done wrong, watch the news all day, be frustrated with your family and your butt will still be in your house. Either way, your butt is in your house.  You can’t change where we are right now, no matter how upset, mad, or scared you are. So close your eyes, take a deep breath, and accept where you are right now. Breathe in reality and stop fighting against things you can’t control. Stay home and use your time in a positive way. If you must go out, give people space. Smile at everyone. No one is smiling! Everyone is all steely faced and scared looking. If you have to work out of the house, just focus on how you can keep yourselves and others safe in your line of work. Smile. Spread love. It’s in short supply right now. Also, you are amazing! In all this, we can all become bitter or better. The choice is completely yours. |
AuthorI'm so tired. The children are so not tired. |