swimmingly

We're not going to the pool again. It's over. OVER! (I am shouting.) Get over it. You can still have a fabulous time outside after school has begun - it's even more fun actually because you feel the time go by and treasure it. I'm tired of shaving anyway (ha!).

Just in case anyone wondered, I do not have it all together. I was quite encouraged reading my blog tonight - have to read it since I'm not much writing it, eh? I needed that. It's good to read about longings for simplicity and about a daily schedule. These things are a balm to my fuzzed-up-thinking this week. It's that same fuzzy thinking that has me still-awake tonight, would be much wiser to be in the bed sleeping myself into some better sanity tomorrow.

Jesus - hear my heart's cry. Take away the unnecessary things, focus me in on the precious. You know my heart's desire is kissing soft baby parts and reading stories and soaking in these children; creating clever things to sew and doing cooking experiments and reorganizing shelves and declaring "I have a dinner plan"; yanking weeds and giving flowers room to breathe. I am tired, I need rest - multiply my energy and patience tomorrow. Help me to do what I ought and hear what I should and inhale deeply and be peaceful in my clutter.