Just Relax a Little

What a weekend. Friday started off by finding out that Rachel Olerud had passed away.I was so sad to hear that as a parent I can't imagine the pain that they are going through. How do you learn to live without a piece of your family? The Smyrna Community seems to all have been affected. If you get on her caring bridge website the guestbook is filled with people that have followed her story and are saddened by the loss.

This weekend was very rainy and Conner had a game Friday night and then his team pictures got cancelled for Saturday so we just layed around. Anyone that knows me knows i don't just lay around. I have trouble just setting down to watch a movie because there is always something that needs dusted or a floor that needs moped or laundry that needs done. Saturday while I was up and down while attempting to watch a movie with Trey i asked him, Don't you feel bad just setting there watching this movie while i am working so hard? Trey in his 11 year old wisdom said No because you don't have to keep getting up it the house work is not going anywhere please just sit down. I don't know why I have such a hard time sitting down and just relaxing. I feel so lazy if I just sit, it is like I can't allow myself to just stop doing. I have thought alot about this this weekend and realized that Rachel's mom would probably do anything to just sit with her daughter and the truth of the matter is when our children are grown and gone or if anything would ever happen to our children it won't have mattered how clean the house was or if there were always clean clothes of if the floor was so clean you can eat off of it. What will matter will be the memories that you have shared, the moments when you just sat and soaked in the person in front of you the time when you just STOPPED and took in the moment. I find myself always looking ahead and not stopping so my goal is to work on just STOPPING for a little bit-like Trey said the laundrey, the dusting it is not going anywhere but every minute that passes takes a minute of my childrens childhood from me so today i am just STOPPING.

God Bless