It’s so easy to take for granted, but when you live with both a mental and physical illness like I do, it can be so hard to find joy in an ordinary day.
This weekend I took time to just “be”. My goal, to try and leave behind the really difficult week I’d had which included an unrelenting flare up in my body that has gone on for days now. I spent time this weekend soaking in the beauty of nature during a long walk in the woods with Rich. Visiting friends who just welcomed a new puppy into their home. Reading. Catching up on some TV shows I’ve had pvr’d for weeks. Laying in bed til noon with my fur baby cuddled up beside me and having dinner with all my kids; a rarity these days.
It now feels like forever ago since our weekends solely revolved around our kid’s lives. Our calendars, for years (and years), were filled with non-stop playdates, birthday parties, hockey and baseball practices, running errands, hockey games, baseball games, tournaments, art classes, swimming lessons, skating lessons, dance classes, more hockey, more errands and the list goes on…and on. We were never ending Uber drivers, long before Uber was even a thing.
I miss all of it and I wouldn’t change any of it for the world but nowadays for me, it’s actually the mundane things I crave most. The simpler the day, the better. The uneventful days and the ones left unscheduled.
It’s the little moments that life is all about, not the grandiose ones. It’s those days which I find the most calm and joy in. It’s those ordinary days, making time for both myself and the people I love that I have learned to appreciate most over time.
“It has taken awhile, but I certainly do know it now – the most wonderful gift I had, the gift I finally learned to cherish above all else, was the gift of all those perfectly ordinary days.”~ Katrina Kenison
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