So Tired

I had such a full day today!  By the end I just didn’t want to finish it out.  I wanted to give in to the exhaustion and stay home.  The problem was I didn’t have the heart to look at my kids, who rely on me to take them to their activities and tell them, “Sorry, I am just too tired to go.”

Today I was able visit with my friend.  We use to meet every week to play worship music together.  Lately we haven’t been so consistent.  She plays violin while I sing and play my guitar.  It has been such a blessing, our kids play and we hang out.  We talk, play, and laugh a lot!  The laughter is my favorite part!

Any way we visited during the middle of the day and then all of a sudden I had ran out of time… I had pictures to be printed before it was too late in the day… because of my  procrastinatiom.  I also had an 11 year old son to take to martial arts and then a Keepers and Contenders meeting (which is like boy/girl scouts except our Lord is incorporated into everything) with all of them that lasts 2 hours.

On Keepers and Contenders night we end up getting home way past their bedtime which means my night ends up being much later.  So I got the pictures to the store and did not watch my son for the first time at his martial arts class, because I had to pick up the pictures before I went to their meeting because my daughter was doing scrapbooking.

So my little one was a champ just napping along the way, my 6 year old was a champ as well, just keeping up with the madness.  My daughter so excited to do something with the pictures…scrapbooking.

The boys were excited because they built a small book shelf where they sawed, nailed, and painted it themselves.  They also love their teacher…who is a man and not a women.  The whole idea of this group is women teaching the girls, and men teaching the boys.  It is really a great thing.

Anyway being so tired, and then pushing through was just so worth it.  My daughter had a wonderful time with her pictures.  I had a realization about her while we were scrapbooking together…  she loves pictures, and memories, as much as I do.  She is already a better photographer than I am.

She really gets tired of her brothers and loves to spend time away from… but that ended up being the first page she chose to do.  She had ideas the minute she picked the photos out from home.  It was totally therapeutic for her.  It made her so happy.  Then the fact that I got to sit with her and just be there to help her make decisions… she actually wanted my opinion.

She kept asking me what I thought about where to put details on the page, and I was trying not to influence her art work.  She finally laughed and said, “Mom, I want you to tell me what you think and you keep saying what ever you think,  will you please help me.”  So I caught on and started just telling her my opinion when she asked.

Next she just let me choose some pictures and do a page myself.  Which was totally fun.  I love art projects myself.  I would totally get into scrapbooking if I had the time and the money.  I don’t have very much of either at this point in my life.

So I realized how thankful I was to stick it out and take my kids to their ‘thing’.  They were so happy, and especially my daughter who gets thrown in with our 3 boys all day long.  My daughter and I are so much the same and it really starts being more obvious as she gets older.

If you ever feel just too tired, and your day is not over… give it a go anyway.  I think blessings some times come when you push through the toughness and let the Lord show you things you wouldn’t even notice if it came too easy!