(I’m the teenager with the blond feathered hair on the right, 2nd row. I’m above my mom with the polka dotted dress. One of my brothers is smiling the cheesy grin below me with his thumbs in his pockets. LOL My dad, sister, and other brother are all in this pic.)
Today is one of those days. I’m behind on e-mails and behind on laundry. Not a good combination. My floors are dirty. I mean dirty dog dirty! Did I tell you I have a black lab that drives me crazy with her hair?
My washing machine belt broke two days ago, so I had to ring out my kids’ drenched hoodies. What a workout! I thanked God for having modern appliances and laughed it off in the moment. It was quite a sight.
Today things aren’t so funny. I’m wrestling with why I can’t to stay on top of things. I’m creative, yes, but organized, no. I have goals but I don’t accomplish much. As a stay at home mom, I have full freedom to stay in my pjs all day if I wanted. There’s no one telling me to DO anything. My husband is not the pressure kind of guy. He’s laid back at home. So I have to motivate myself. More like God has to motivate me.
Like a turtle, I live slow and steady. Not a type A at all. Remember I love to just look and listen? Plus I don’t want to be a mom/wife who cooked and cleaned all day, but never enjoyed her life or family. So I kick back without excuse.
This so called easy living is hard when there’s lots of work to be done.
Anyway, I’m going to shake off this mood now. I feel better already just by being honest. Time for my praise music to blare. Time to thank God for so many things.
Time to get my eyes off of me and work!
Help me, LORD. Be strong in my weakness. Come close, God. Together we can have fun and still get a job or two done!
You just described some of my recent experiences, too. Much to do, difficult time getting it in, scheduling fiascos, etc. I'm going to trim some stuff out. Reading a book now, "The Life You've Always Wanted" and one of the chapters is about being too busy. Mmm. Good luck, and I hope you get it all done!
Warren
I have those days,too. I'm stay at home mom with no one around (teenage daughter is in school) so it's just my 2 little doggies.
I love your hair! It looks like the Farrah Fawett hairdo. I had one too. 🙂
love and hugs~Tammy
Be bless today 🙂
Your hair is the way I always wanted my hair to be when I was a teenager. But with curly hair it never worked out. I would blow dry my hair and try so hard to style it like that but it would just get puffier and puffier. Oh well.
I have days like this also. Sometimes I think the Lords gives them to us so we can just slow down and relax. I tend to get so overwhelmed getting everything done. Enjoy your day and your floor will still be there in the morning!
I love you my beautiful friend.
Fun flashback picture!
I know the feeling of trying to be motivated…mine is more often "staying" motivated. It seemed like I was coming off a long week and I decided to just crash this afternoon and take a nap. Felt great. Sometimes there is nothing wrong with just stopping for a spell.
Enjoyed my stop here today. 🙂 Have a beautiful weekend!
What a great family picture!
Loved your ending prayer….
Tiffany,
I sooooo relate to what you're saying. I have been in such a season. I can pass an whole day (before the kids get home from school) and not have much to show for it.
The flip side is that I've been available to serve when asked and I've had some neat experiences recently.
BTW, love the hairdo. I had one like it too!
Keep praying for God to fill your days as He desires. I appreciate that you take time to stop and listen. I'd hazard a guess that our Creator does as well.
Sometimes it's hard to stay on task… I used to be quite the task master. I couldn't rest until a task was done… but the more I get away from my identity being in what I do, the easier it is to waste away the day. For me sometimes I seem to go from one extreme to the other to get to a balance. It ends up being that place where I have to ask God to motivate me to do that which I need to do… because I just don't have it in me. The longer I am married doing housework the more I just don't want to do it… lol
I hear you…. It's easy to feel the thorns and thistles of this life sometimes!
I can identify with this post. I have two quotes which seem so appropriate. They are from Ashleigh Brilliant; "I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once."
The other is;"By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me."
They just seemed to fit with this.
And you are so right with your last comment…getting our eyes off self is when things begin to change.
Hugs,
Rose
Fun picture. Your looks haven't changed; you're so pretty 🙂
I love the reminder to be the mom who enjoys life and spends time with her family. Thanks for that today.