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Reason, Season or Lifetime?

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Okay…this came to me via email, in one of those annoying, sappy documents that command you to send it on to a billion friends for good luck. Bah!

Because it came from my best friend, I actually read it instead of sending it immediately to the trash file. I actually liked what it said, so I cleaned up the grammar, tweaked the writing style and posted it here on my blog. Wow. I should be an editor.

People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.

When someone is in your life for a reason, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed. They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally or spiritually. They may seem like a godsend and they are. They are there for the reason you need them to be.

Then, without any wrongdoing on your part or at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end. Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away. Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand. What you must realize is that your need has been met, your desire fulfilled – and their work is done.

Some people come into your life for a season, because your turn has come to share, grow or learn. They bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh. They may teach you something you have never done. They usually give you an unbelievable mount of joy. Believe in these relationships, because they are real – but only for a season.

Lifetime relationships teach you lifetime lessons, things that you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation. Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life. These relationships build your character and establish your moral compass – for a lifetime.

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Life and Living

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Sometimes “Life” just gets in the way of living. The past few weeks have been pure overload on inconveniences. Our Nanny, the young college student who picks my younger kids up from their school and brings them to my office every day, accepted a graduate school scholarship…in another state. We’ve had two deaths in our extended family in the past two weeks. Both were expected, but emotionally crushing in spite of their inevitability. Throw teacher conferences on top of that, a brilliant child who is just “too bored” at school, a great kid who is struggling with physics class and needs extra help, volleyball tournaments, a dear husband with a work deadline that has governmental agencies calling/emailing him every hour day and night, dead trees falling on fence lines, camping trip, fall fund raising (GAG ME!), soccer season and a teenager learning to drive, wandering hermit crabs, homecoming dance, confirmation classes…well, you get the picture.

We are all still breathing, I’ve managed to have a reasonably healthy dinner on the table every evening, and everyone has clean underpants. I’m clearing the calendar for this Saturday morning, and the first child/dog/husband that wakes me up is going to be scrubbing toilets for the rest of the day with their own toothbrush.

That will be a neat trick for the dog.

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Welcome Back, Routine and Schedule!

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“back to school”

“BACK TO SCHOOL!! WA-HOOO!!”

That’s the difference between my children’s reaction and my reaction to back to school week. No, I am not glad to have my children out of the house – I miss them terribly when they are gone. I am, however, glad to have Routine and Schedule brought back into my life!

Oh how I miss those two rascals during the summer months. Having Lazy and Spontaneous come for a visit is fun, for about the first ten minutes of June. Then they start getting on my nerves. They sap my energy. They make me crabby and irritable.

I am one of those BO people – Born Organized. I have to have a plan, and a list of things to accomplish. I need everything put away in its place, preferably labeled with those embossed sticky label thingies. (Just joking!) When Routine and Schedule take up residence in my home, well, I’m one happy camper.

Unfortunately, I’m the only one. DH and DK’s couldn’t care less. So what’s a loving Mom to do to keep her family reasonably happy? Relax the routine in the summer months.

And count the days until school starts again.

My children returned to school on August 14, 2007. They are now happy about it.