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Dear mom who has lost her joy. Every day is the same, but before we know it these moments will be gone. Let’s find joy in the everyday moments.
I see you, waking up to yet another day. It feels like every day is the same. Day after day.
To the kids we say:
Clean up,
Go get dressed,
Do your chores
You need to focus!
Our to-do list is the same every day and it seems to never end.
We must work, do schoolwork, then clean, then feed the kids.
There is dinner, and laundry and homework.
Errands to run, bills to pay, and groceries to buy.
It. Never. Ends.
It becomes monotonous. And in the end, the monotony can steal our joy. I felt this way over Christmas break. I was tired, exhausted, and sick of the mundane. This made me grumpy, irritable and not much fun to be around. But, then I realized the problem was ME. Instead of embracing the joy in those everyday moments, I was looking at them as ordinary. I wanted more, instead of what I had.
Dear mom, when we let those mundane moments become ordinary, we stop seeing the extraordinary. We take our eyes off the prize and lose our focus.
Before we know it these mundane moments will be gone. That blue-eyed girl will no longer want you to hold her hand. That middle child will be no longer think boys are yucky and your baby will be “doing it himself” and won’t need you to fix it anymore
All those things happen while we are in the mundane. They don’t happen overnight, but throughout the course of little moments.
So, today dear mom, let’s choose to find joy in that pile of laundry.
Let’s find joy in that math lesson that we don’t want to do.
Let’s read THAT book one more time and let’s watch that magic show again.
These moments are fleeting and when looked at in the grand scheme of things are far from ordinary.
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What a lovely reminder. Thank you 🙂
Love this! Thanks so much for the reminder!
Awe thank you Tarissa!!
Misty, thank you for this encouragement to keep my focus during even the most mundane moments. There really are so many treasures to be found in the daily tasks that I often allow to weigh me down. I’m so glad I was your neighbor at Equipping Godly Women today. 🙂
Visiting from #FellowshipFriday this is a great topic and one that I was dealing with today, I have felt like that and today I found a new zest for the everyday tasks!
Thank you for your kind words!!! And yes there is so much magic in those little moments that we can often take for granted.
What a wonderful post! I love your quote:
Dear mom, when we let those mundane moments become ordinary, we stop seeing the extraordinary. We take our eyes off the prize and lose our focus.
There is magic in the mundane. I see it as I fold little socks for children who will put their little feet in little shoes. I see magic as I clean up goop off of innocent and sweet, sticky faces.
Thank you for this wonderful post!
This is so good Misty! So encouraging, sharing!
Thanks for stopping by! It is great that you have found a way to break up the mundane that works for you!
Hi Misty, I’m visiting from the Shine Blog Hop via The Deliberate Mom. I felt this way many times. I have began nourishing myself again by focusing on my creative side. I find it is helping to break up the mundane task of being a stay at home mama.
What wonderful and encouraging words Misty. We have those moments/days don’t we.
Finding joy… I can totally and completely go for that (except when there’s puke involved).
Thanks for sharing (and for linking up to the #SHINEbloghop)!
Wishing you a lovely evening.
xoxo