Give me a minute...

I want a do-over. The days when I was scanning websites for the items to put on our baby registry-yeah, I want those back. I spent too much time looking for gear with the highest ratings and gadgets that no one said would be completely useless. I would sweep the whole list clean and simply ask for more minutes. Not the Verizon-more-minutes...I mean more minutes.

They say time is a gift. I don't know who "they" are but I agree. Time is indeed a gift. I won't go into more cliches about making every second count and seizing the day, yadda yadda. Those phrases make me crazy; of course we should live it to the fullest. But when you're like me (and most folks, I imagine) and you're plugging away putting in forty hours a week somewhere you'd never be if it weren't for that paycheck...well, those sayings instill a lot of feelings of guilt and failure. Failure to honor the gift of time.

So I'm turning the tables on that and saying the lack of time is also a gift. When you only have so much time to actually start seizing anything, let alone a whole day, you are forced to prioritize. To figure out what's truly important at that moment. Children, spouses, chores, friends, errands, health...big stuff or little, what comes first? What comes last? Does the laundry need to get done or do we go splash in the creek for the afternoon? Do we get up at 6 am to walk off those extra ten pounds or do we sleep that extra hour to have energy for the day? Do we blog because we haven't done so in a month or do we read that library book that's overdue but not finished yet?

No one can answer those questions but me. I am doing what I can to keep everyone and everything in my sights and on my radar but there will always be something that falls behind. It's regrettable but necessary and coming to terms with that is my challenge. So forgive me for not being here contributing to my project lately. I will move it up a few notches on my priority list and be more consistent with the scribbles here. Just give me a minute...or five...