Rising in the morning and stumbling through the normal routine, shower, dress, prep for work. So much of our lives are lived on automatic, drop the kids at school, drive to work, work all day long and reverse, to pick up the kids, run errands, run kids around, make (or pick up) supper and so on until you fall into bed exhausted. Does this sound like your life? It is how most of us live.
You can’t experience every moment of your life, you’d never get through the day. You can, however, try to be mindful of those moments. One Sunday morning, I got up to find my husband and daughters lounging in the living room reading the paper. Now my kids have since all moved out as they are adults and living their own lives. In that moment, I just watched and listened to them. Took in the moment, which sounds really silly but see at that point I knew my daughters would soon be leaving us.
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