Welcome to my blog on topics about keeping the home - or attempting to - as a Gen X Mom of four and wife to one. :) This blog is written by me, Lori Seaborg, from the Florida-Alabama Gulf Coast. I'm not the person who is ahead of you in mothering and homemaking knowledge. I'm just the gal right beside you, motivating the 11yo daydreamer, keeping up with the 9yo future homemaker extraordinaire (every mama needs a helper like this one!), teaching the rascally 6-year-old while occupying the 3yo. Let's learn together!
I've been frustrated for the past couple of weeks with the housework (it seems to be multiplying), with my fatigue (always tired), with the children (who are always needing things like meals and clean socks), with Tim (who needs clean jeans for work, how dare he), with writing (because I'm not doing it), with homeschooling (guilt consumes me here) and with the animals (who need food every day instead of when I randomly feel like giving it to them).
In short, I've been annoyed and frustrated.
I've found that if I start my day out with God time -- a consistent God time, a time that is scheduled as if Jesus were sitting in my rocking chair in the library, waiting for me to join Him -- then the rest of the day goes much smoother.
Things get done, jeans get clean, animals are enjoyed, the children are happier, dh gets spoiled, I am less tired because I am more scheduled, and I am less frustrated with all the Earth and every person in it.
Sure, trouble still comes, but it is more tolerable because of the time with God where Scriptures have been memorized, even accidentally, and praises have been sung.
Most amazing to me, the little annoyances almost disappear.
With a song in my heart and a verse in my head, I'm not as upset about things like sticky tables or playdough in the carpet. My eternal perspective improves.
Thanks for the reminder. So many times it's not the big trials of life that pull us down, its the ton of small things. How blessed we are that our Heavenly Father cares about them all!
but I do mine at night; it works better for me =) I completely agree though. My life seems to be more focused when I have that time rather than skip it. Funny how that bit of time can focus your life, but if you spend that time doing other things, life can turn to chaos.
Makes me wonder why I ever even *think* of skipping that time. Alas, satan often tricks me into the busyness thing though.
Praying you get back on track!!!
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Bethany
...as of this morning . It's hardest for me to have my God Time when life throws major punches -- like Hurricane Dennis this week for example. We were CONSUMED with first Tropical Storm Cindy then Hurricane Dennis for a total of 2 weeks, with preparations and weather reports, etc. When something like that happens, it seems my God Time is the first to go. I just hit the floor running in the morning, or drop into bed exhausted at night, and God Time gets shoved aside, for "later."
LORI!, I feel like I already know you and now that I have read your posts, Leisl was sooo right, we would get along beautifully! I have felt this same way all week long and was just thinking "this has got to stop, and I am the only one who can control it" when I read your post. Great motivation. I just set up my own blog here on Saturday, I have been meaning to for about a month now and have just never got around to it. Anyway glad to finally get to "meet" you!
Blessings,
Gayle
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