Busyness of Life

I have not posted anything in a while, and I realized that yesterday.  Why?

Because I've been just a tad busy.  Seriously?  Me?? Busy???  YES.

Just because someone is a stay at home mom, doesn't mean that they aren't busy.  I myself am a stay at home mom, AND I home school, AND I am a teacher for a Parents Day Out program.   I am always busy doing SOMETHING.  Rarely do I find time for myself to do absolutely nothing.  

About a year and a half ago when I had major surgery, and was on recovery for about 6 weeks, I did a lot of nothing.  And it was BORING!!  My mother was gracious enough to come down to my house and sit with me every single day.  When my dad got off of work at noon, he then came over to hang out with me, my mom and the kids.  Thankfully, they just live less than a half a mile from me.  Thats a HUGE blessing to me to have my folks so close to us.

My mother would get up and come down here every morning around 8.  She'd let herself in because she knew I was still in bed.  She'd close the door to my bedroom so that the kids or the dogs wouldn't wake me up.  I'd get up and she'd have fed the kids breakfast and started doing other stuff around the house.  If there were dishes that needed to be washed, she washed them.  If she saw there was some laundry that needed to be done, she did that.  

Once my recovery time was up and I went back to doing everything myself again, I had to make myself not be busy.  Kinda hard for me to do.  I can't sit still.  I have to be doing something all the time.  And when Im at home, Im usually doing something related to cleaning the house up.  Dishes, laundry, cleaning a bathroom, dusting, vac'n the floor, picking up the kids rooms, etc.

I remember one day that I was just SO incredibly tired.  My house was a pit because I'd been doing other things for other people and couldn't clean my own house.  I was tired and I was hurting(fibromyalgia sucks) and I just didn't want to do anything.  My husband came up to me one day and took me by the hand and led me to the living room and sat me down in my rocking chair.  He said, "Just sit down!  You don't have to do all this right now!"

I've had to make myself just sit down like that several times lately.  I come in from work on Tuesday or Thursdays and I just sit and do nothing.  I'm on my feet most of the day those two days every week.  I don't want to come home and start cleaning my house up, so I've just sat down and chilled for a change.  I've done that the past two weeks.  

I've gotten lazy about cooking dinner and when my husband is off of work, I've been telling him, "I am NOT cooking dinner tonight.  You can do it!" :) And thankfully, he's done the dinner preps.

We have to rest.  Thats the way that the Lord made our bodies.  We must rest and if we are going and going and going and need rest and won't do it on our own, He may intervene and give us that time to rest.  We have times that we must 'be still' and listen to the Lord. Be still and know that He is God! Psalm 46:10