Comments on: What are we running after? http://flawedbutauthentic.com/2008/02/20/what-are-we-running-after/ Exchange Some Yellow! Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:25:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: OMSH http://flawedbutauthentic.com/2008/02/20/what-are-we-running-after/#comment-511 OMSH Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:41:00 +0000 http://flawedbutauthentic.com/2008/02/20/what-are-we-running-after/#comment-511 <b>Stacy</b> - When I get sick it is USUALLY because there is too, too much. My sickness is almost always set off by exhaustion. I do like the solution to yelling hurry up. It is probably a rare moment when my child can't be at my side within 10 seconds. <b>Jules</b> - I can't imagine what your daily grind might be like. Perhaps for you the idea is to get help in one area or the other, so you can free it up. For instance, I recently got a housecleaner. Of course, my friends think I'm insane. "Why can't you clean your own home? You're home all day and it isn't that big." Yep, I'm home most the day and yep, it is small, but I want it CLEAN and I'm unwilling to take away from some of our life activities to get it that way when I can use money I earn to let someone else do it for me. Is there anything you can give over? Stacy - When I get sick it is USUALLY because there is too, too much. My sickness is almost always set off by exhaustion.

I do like the solution to yelling hurry up. It is probably a rare moment when my child can’t be at my side within 10 seconds.

Jules - I can’t imagine what your daily grind might be like. Perhaps for you the idea is to get help in one area or the other, so you can free it up. For instance, I recently got a housecleaner. Of course, my friends think I’m insane. “Why can’t you clean your own home? You’re home all day and it isn’t that big.”

Yep, I’m home most the day and yep, it is small, but I want it CLEAN and I’m unwilling to take away from some of our life activities to get it that way when I can use money I earn to let someone else do it for me.

Is there anything you can give over?

]]> By: Jules http://flawedbutauthentic.com/2008/02/20/what-are-we-running-after/#comment-508 Jules Sun, 24 Feb 2008 14:31:08 +0000 http://flawedbutauthentic.com/2008/02/20/what-are-we-running-after/#comment-508 I want so desperately to slow down but I don't know how to figure out where I can let go. I work outside the home, have 4 children ages 4 to 12 and a disabled husband. I am doing the minimums and still feel like it's never enough and it's never done. *sigh* I want so desperately to slow down but I don’t know how to figure out where I can let go. I work outside the home, have 4 children ages 4 to 12 and a disabled husband. I am doing the minimums and still feel like it’s never enough and it’s never done. *sigh*

]]> By: Stacy http://flawedbutauthentic.com/2008/02/20/what-are-we-running-after/#comment-499 Stacy Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:30:55 +0000 http://flawedbutauthentic.com/2008/02/20/what-are-we-running-after/#comment-499 Just found this site through Mrs. G. I am trying to walk. I recently really pared down after an exhausting and complicated year. Had my second baby, started working (quit my writing group and Buddhist parents' group), started to get sick, had friends staying with us for six months, got really sick... friends left, quit the job, started the Buddhist Parents' Group again (it's a lifesaver), and oh yeah, kept the baby. :) It was really telling to me that I QUIT the things that nourished me (writing and mindfulness). Now I am prioritizing those things. And I am right there on the dawdling. I really dislike hearing myself rushing my kids along. I recently read (on Everyday Yogini, I think) about counting to 10 before asking your child to "come on!" or "hurry up!" and have been doing that. Really, that is all they need sometimes though it can seem like F-O-R-E-V-E-R. Thanks for this post, OMSH. Good luck on finding your pace, and congrats on doing all you have already. Blessings, Stacy Just found this site through Mrs. G.

I am trying to walk. I recently really pared down after an exhausting and complicated year. Had my second baby, started working (quit my writing group and Buddhist parents’ group), started to get sick, had friends staying with us for six months, got really sick… friends left, quit the job, started the Buddhist Parents’ Group again (it’s a lifesaver), and oh yeah, kept the baby. :)

It was really telling to me that I QUIT the things that nourished me (writing and mindfulness). Now I am prioritizing those things.

And I am right there on the dawdling. I really dislike hearing myself rushing my kids along. I recently read (on Everyday Yogini, I think) about counting to 10 before asking your child to “come on!” or “hurry up!” and have been doing that. Really, that is all they need sometimes though it can seem like F-O-R-E-V-E-R.

Thanks for this post, OMSH. Good luck on finding your pace, and congrats on doing all you have already.

Blessings,
Stacy

]]> By: OMSH http://flawedbutauthentic.com/2008/02/20/what-are-we-running-after/#comment-486 OMSH Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:01:51 +0000 http://flawedbutauthentic.com/2008/02/20/what-are-we-running-after/#comment-486 <b>bethany actually</b> - I do the same thing to Kenny when I'm trying to get out the door. I swear, waiting for him to turn off his Leapster and put it in the right spot seems to take forever. Silly really - I'm rarely needing to be anywhere IMMEDIATELY ever. It is Mom Disease...I'm certain. *wink* bethany actually - I do the same thing to Kenny when I’m trying to get out the door. I swear, waiting for him to turn off his Leapster and put it in the right spot seems to take forever. Silly really - I’m rarely needing to be anywhere IMMEDIATELY ever.

It is Mom Disease…I’m certain. *wink*

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