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Things don’t seem to slow down

November 16th, 2010 by Kim

At least for me anyway. I often feel like I am living from one thing to the next. At the same time, I DO feel like I am “living life” , enjoying family, our church and serving our Lord. But still the fact remains, life doesn’t move slow. It’s fast. Often not even yielding  time for reflection.

I am a planner/scheduler: grocery shopping, weekly menu, home-school planning, school events, bible study, after school activities, meetings. . . Most of the time, if I get it on the schedule, it will more than likely get done. Now with that said, I also fully believe that at the present moment, I have (or can think of) enough things on my schedule to plan for the rest of my life. So then my planning becomes more prioritizing, staying ahead, SURVIVING.

One day, it finally hit me just how full my days are when I was at the grocery store for my weekly shopping. I saw there a friend. I had my list, he had his, we laughed at how we both were moving so fast through the dairy section. Then as we were parting he said to me, “ok, so we’ll see you when you bring Oli (his son) home from sports”. Immediately I panicked, flushed and my heart sank at the realization that despite my good planning, I had missed it. How could I have forgotten such an important thing. This couldn’t be happening to me. Not only had I forgotten that it was my “day” to pick up from sports, but I had not even remembered to “take” my boy to sports! What a mess! Thankfully my friend was very understanding and stepped right in my crisis and helped me out.

This week (and for many weeks now) on my schedule is to write a web post update on all the great things going on over here in Slovakia. When I see it on my “list” through-out the week,  I immediately think of all the things I can write about and in my mind I have really nice elaborate posts. All i need to do is get them out of my head and onto the web (easy enough). Unfortunately, so many things take over and prevent the latter from happening. Not major things, but just life: dinner preparation, shopping, homework, homeschooling, teaching, bible study, cleaning – the list goes on.

But today, I found a space. I finished homeschool with Emili, sent her off to regular school for the rest of her classes. The house is cleaned (yesterday’s list).  Dinner is already started and on the stove.  Hampton is watching a “program” and occupied for the moment. Here I am, in the kitchen,  computer at hand, ready to dictate all those nicely composed posts. . . . how can i just pick up and write without first an explanation? that done, and now. . . the timer goes off (time’s up) ! Off to the  next thing (lunch date with Zac,  school pick-ups, small group preparation for tonight). But first, necessities to squeeze in (get out of my pj’s, brush teeth, clean up breakfast dishes)

Still I’m thankful for what i did write and hopefully “next time” will prove to be a bit more productive! Until then!

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