The elder princess is home sick today. As of writing this, she’s doing better, but she can use the rest. While I have the girls today, I’m also going to have them to myself this weekend while my queen goes on a trip. They’re good kids and I’m getting almost full nights of sleep, so I’m not complaining. Logistical issues arise with two kids, three animals and one me, the biggest issue being no one will let me go to the bathroom alone. Mostly I need to go from fixing one thing to another and sometimes while solving one problem, a mess is being created elsewhere. Outnumbered by kids or living the rest of my life, that’s how things go and there’s always more work than we have time for. Then we also need to balance fun and appreciating the moment, they won’t be little forever. All that’s exhausting, you know some people will go the whole day with only a couple of thoughts in their head while I need to be in the past, present, and future. It’s only a need as part of a bigger plan. As said these lessons apply to life in general that I’m trying to build a future, meaning I have to retain the plan. Using the lessons I’ve learned from the past, I take actions in the present. What does it mean to live in the moment? Is it artsy nonsense? Largely it is, but art touches on emotion. Living in the moment is taking time to observe our surrounding to aid our emotions. The process is grounding, confirming physical reality to the spirit in our head to give a more realistic picture of the future ahead.
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