Dry well

I'm all locked up in the bedroom taking a break from my three little ones. (My mom is here and playing with the boys while Lydie sleeps.) I am exhausted from birthdays, guests, traveling, meetings, and mommy work. I am feeling overwhelmed wondering if I am this tired at the end of the summer...how can I begin the new school year on Monday? Most tired moms will send their children to school on the bus Monday morning, in fact all of our neighborhood friends will be doing that with the exception of one. Lord, where will the energy come from to end this crazy, albeit fun, exhausting summer and enter a year of home schooling? I truly have no idea. But, I love this quote. Even though right now even one more task sounds like too much, I am inspired. All I know is to trust the Lord to provide His water of life where the well is empty.

“The biggest mistake I made [as a parent] is the one that most of us make. . . . I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of [my three children] sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages six, four, and one. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in such a hurry to get on to the next thing: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less” ~ Anna Quindlen

*Pictured above: the energy-zappers