On days when it’s possible, I start my day with long slow mornings. This is what I’m doing right now, staying in bed, my toddler and I. We have nowhere to be, nothing to immediately get done. No work and no daycare.
I prefer to get up early, before him, so that I have alone time to do my morning routine but lately I’ve been doing all the wrong things for making that happen. Staying up too late, hitting snooze over and over and over. When I am finally ready to get up and I try to sneak out of bed, his spidey senses awaken and he’s not letting me up without him.
I used to stress a bit about missing out on that quiet solitude but that’s not congruent with relaxing and going with the flow so now I just incorporate him into my long and quiet mornings. We have breakfast in bed, he watches Paw Patrol or some other show snuggled up right beside me and I send out my daily quotes and spend time on WordPress. It’s bliss and I will miss this when it’s time to go back to work.
I love the quote that talks about living a life that’s so enjoyable on the daily, you don’t need a break or vacation from it. That’s not to say I don’t want to go on vacations because I certainly do want to, and I love to travel but I don’t want one of those hectic existences where I barely feel like I can make it through the week and only live for weekends, or vacations.
If I could take it and run with it, I’d pick up and move to the country and live a life that includes farming and gardening and clothes on the line. Maybe that’s the farmer in me trying to bubble up to the surface and come back into existence.
Perhaps when we retire we will live like that. For now, I’m satisfied with a summer that will be spent in the backyard, watching my little one splash in his pool. We will snack on watermelon and popcorn twists, drink cold cold water. I don’t want to go, go, go. Right now I prefer to stay, stay, stay where it’s comfortable and calm.
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