Today is a blustery, blustery day! It's hard to realize that we are midway through November already.
It's 2:15 pm... Susy is napping. She usually takes a nice, long nap. I gravitate towards the computer once she's down for her nap. I feel like this should be "my time" in a sense, but guess who's up, bright-eyed, bushy-tailed at this time? Vasi. Of course. She's 3 and half, but she's given up her naps a while ago. Sure, I could "force it," but it usually isn't worth the effort. She's not the kind of kid who I can just tuck in, kiss and leave to sleep. She needs stories. And lullaby music, and I need to lay with her for about half an hour (at least) before she even nods off to sleep. And by the time the pre-nap hullaballo is over, and her nap is in action, and she wakes up.... it's, like, 4 or 5 pm, which sets her bedtime back further quite a bit. So I choose an earlier bedtime with no fight and easy nod-off over a mid-day nap. If she happens to fall asleep in the car during errands, I'll always let her sleep. But if we are just at home, I don't worry about it.
I need to get back into the habit of leaving the computer OFF until 3 pm, but most likely 4 pm. Perhaps this would spare me the delusion of having "a break," and all of the frustrations that come with realizing I am not at all "on break."
Also, I need to get working on some creative projects. I've been feeling the urge to make things, but I've locked myself into thinking "I don't have time." Well, I know from experience and prior days of better time-management (read: pre-pregnancy) that it is entirely possible; it's just up to me.
Time to tear myself away from the computer... spend time with Vasi... create...put laundry away... empty the dishwasher... love... Day two of the Nativity fast-- plenty of weaknesses to work on in the course of the next 38 days (who am I kidding-- these weaknesses will be with me for life). Lord have mercy!
A blessed Nativity Fast to you all!
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I read something today that was encouraging to me....perhaps you might like it too.
" it is one thing to go through a crisis grandly, and yet another thing to go through every day glorifying God where there is not witness,no limelight, no one paying the remotest attention to us.
It takes God spirit in us to make us so absolutely "humanly His" that we are utterly unnoticeable. The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life....Our human relationships are the actual conditions in which the ideal life of God is to be exhibited."
This is something I needed to read.
O come O come Emanuel
Have a blessed advent !
love
marm
(PS: you and "middy" look very cozy on this blustery day.)
You look so cozy on the couch :) Don't you love how the kitty's are so pleased to come curl up with you? haha. It makes it very hard to rise up and get with it too!
I loved reading your message, and your mom's :) great quote.
Peace and Blessings to all,
Love Aunt Helen
What a wonderful quote Lois! I needed that too..
You look so cozy Katie!!
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