What's important!

Well it has turned out my fall has been anything BUT familiar.

With untimely deaths on both side of our family (something that has never happened on either side before until recently) it has caused us to at times to slip with our footing this fall and let unimportant things slide - only to have revealed how important other things, like friends and family, are to us.

It makes you go into reevaluation mode and you wonder how much of what you do in the day to day is REALLY, I mean REALLY important?

Housework is certainly not important - in fact it only really took me a couple of hours to get everything back on track as far as the house was concerned. So why then do I panic if I don't get that load of laundry in every morning or the floors mopped when there are obviously more important things to do?

Friends are of course important but more important is that they are there for you with prayer and to "fill in" where needed so that you are able to focus on those important things and not the details of other activities that can (believe it or not) be carried out by someone else.

Family also are very important - it's sad how we take that for granted thinking that they will always be there whenever it's "convenient" for us. We certainly need to take the time to spend quality time together and never be "too busy" for family. My priorities certainly need to be realigned in that area.

And what about homeschool? WOW - Busy work - certainly is not - EXCEPT that it does allow for some independence for when you can't be there. TIME - time is important to sit and be with and to teach. And it doesn't take much but it does take undivided, focused and awareness of what I should be spending my time on rather than just "assigning" busy work.

So I'm going to take the time to review and reevaluate some things - will let you know how that goes. For a year that I thought was going to be familiar and "easy" I've learned I need to still be very much "engaged" in my life something I've let slip during the summer and has made it's way into my fall routine. Hopefully these wake up calls will get me back into it what's important.