We are always so crazy busy. I feel like I live in the car, and worse, that I'm always filling the car up with gas. Dinner time is a joke. We used to eat together every night and now I just pray I can get something on the table and people will eat when they can cram it in, in between activities, chores, homework, sports, you name it.
Since I'm constantly taking the kids somewhere, on the drive to wherever I've been trying to talk to them more, but mostly I've been trying to listen more. Nothing profound has come of it but I'm loving the little things learned along the way.
It's hard to realize when you have free time together because everyone is trying to catch up on something. A few weeks ago Chris was watching "Raising Hope" in the kitchen while cleaning up. I was in and out running kids here and there. He mentioned to me that he thought the show was funny. So...in all my free time (haha) I stole a minute (or 22) to watch it on Netflix. All of the sudden the kids came from nowhere and joined me in watching this show.
Over the last week, we've all tried to catch an episode and it's funny how we all end up on the couch together to watch. The kids have more free time so they'll watch a couple episodes and I try to catch up later. Even though they've already seen the ones I'm on, they always stick around to watch and snuggle.
I know we could be doing something more valuable with our time, but I'm thankful for these moments because we have so few of them. It's really helped me see that even though we are all so busy, we can always find time to be together as a family, even if it's not over a hot meal.
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