Let. It. Go.

I have found myself in quite the dilemma recently.  I know this is the age-old problem and that I am not the first to wrestle with it, but I wanted an answer and I was determined to find it.  I know you are dying to know what I am talking about, so I’ll tell you.  I’m talking about HOW in the WORLD do I get it ALL done?!    There is laundry, cooking, cleaning, laundry, disciplining the children, dishes, finances, shopping, laundry, organizing, playing with the kids, homeschooling the kids, oh yeah, and laundry!  And then I need to try to get some blogging and Facebook time in there???  Also, did you notice that sleep didn’t even make the list?  That is because I don’t do much of that.  Figure I will sleep when all the kids leave (which will be never at the rate I keep having them). 

So, while I have been absent from the blogging and Facebook arena, I really have been a busy lady.  In the past few weeks, I have started  a new year of homeschooling and begun preparing  for our new Classical Conversations group in which I will have a role as tutor.  I have bought all of the kids clothes for the next year and redesigned our family closet.

I have driven (alone) with all of the children to visit family in Oklahoma, and I have incubated a baby a few more weeks.  Not only that, we have taken on a family of baby bunnies that were abandoned.  Feeding them my hard-earned breast milk no less! 

All-in-all a pretty productive month…but I still didn’t get everything done that I wanted to get done! 

Through this, I think I have solved my problem.  Inquiring minds want to know? 

Prayer. 

You may think this is a no-brainer answer that I came up with because no other answer would work.  Not so much.  Number one.  It takes diligence to offer your days up to the Lord.  When you have been up all night (again) with a sick child (and up even more peeing because somehow that baby in utero knows just where that bladder is), when the kids get up at the crack of dawn  a mere minutes after you laid you head on the pillow because they are “starving”, it is hard to find that moment to pray (especially without falling asleep). 

BUT.  If you can find a few, however brief moments, to get on your knees and ask the Lord to bless your day and to help you expand the moments, it will all get done.  It may not be everything that you have on my “to-do” list, or even half of what you think a “godly” wife should have gotten done, but it will be exactly what was supposed to get done.  Pray for peace for the type-A monster welling up inside of you and just let. it. go.