My husband's friend and mentor, Blake Leath, writes thoughtful blogs, and this one especially resonated with me today, as I struggle between wanting to be creative and ambitious, and wanting to "just be a mom." Especially this quote:
The life lived outside the very constellation of creativity and possibility and imagination that swirled within the fertile world of the Winnie the Pooh series. A life surrounded by brilliance but deficient in love and affection.
Not that I think my children are surrounded with brilliance (ha!) or lack of love & affection (maybe too much the opposite?), but you'd think someone who wrote that touching story would have a beautiful reflection of it at home, and how sad to discover that it wasn't true. Can I put off editing another day and crawl in my son's race car bed to read him his favorite dinosaur books (whose names I can't pronounce) a dozen times? What can you put off in order to savor this day with your family?
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I took off this afternoon to spend time with my good friend Leslie who has just had major surgery for breast cancer. I didn't feel guilty once for all of the editing I wasn't doing... and there's a lot... I was so thankful for the time we got to spend together, enjoying the nice weather, doing a puzzle, walking the dogs. I thought to myself, I should do this more often!
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