A new definition of Rest...

It always amazes me that despite my effort to be free of over scheduling, planning and obligations that can suck the very joy of spontaneity and free spirit out of you, I seem to manage to feel all to caught up in it on a regular basis.
I seek a simple unplanned if possible relaxed life and yet it never quite seems to actually look and be that way..Hmm. compared to some I suppose, we are rather unregimented. But for us, we are more than we would prefer to be. The blog for example, I love that I can write every day or more, but I love that I don't have to and it is to no one persons benefit or loss to me if I do not! However, I also find great encouragement and release in the process of writing and the fulfillment of reading or hearing about how one thought or another I have typed out has somehow blessed someone else. Even if it is momentary and fleeting. There is a great pleasure in that!

Today is no less busy than any other day, more so in fact. we are up and cooking, then readying for church, then off and buzzing around there, then back home for lunch then naps (especially for mom and dad, which is rare) then up and ready to go again to another families house for afternoon tea then off again for supper at yet another friends house! Now if that's a relaxed day for us...we are clearly far too busy. Now in saying all of that, I still feel like today is a good and calm day. Somewhere in the midst of all of that, the children have had time to each invite a friend over. Bringing our house total to 12, and this is normal. They blissfully played out side in the muddy thawing yard and enjoyed some time at the neighbors house too. Not to mention that somehow I managed to pre-pair and cook 48 Mini Quiche for our dinner engagement. Whoaa...Ok, ya, that's alot. Even for us! Not super parents here...maybe super crazy, but that's about all. Funny how writing it all out makes it seem unimaginably larger than it feels.....Love that about writing...
Quiche are almost done and then the readying begins.....

It's a good restful day....I wonder what form rest will take in a decade for us???

Crystal