The World Keeps on Turning

There's a million items I need to check off on my to-do list.  And being a woman, God so oddly gave me the ability to allow those million items to consistently be running simultaneously through my head no matter the time of day.  I envy men and their gift of being able to take one thing at a time.  Being a woman is taxing.  I need to clean the house, been wanting to blog for forever, I need to catch up on work and spend time on developing my work Access database, desperately want to work out and I have to finalize all the details for our trip in a month.  I want to read a good book and go back to having nightly devotions with my hubby.

I keep hoping that just having a good cry will make all the items on my to-do list disappear.  Or somehow by checking one thing off my list, it will magically check off other things, instead of just adding things to my list. I guess I could keep on dreaming, but that doesn't help me make this list get smaller.  So, today, I decided I just needed to buckle down and start knocking things off my list.  So what did I do?  I played on Pinterest and caught up on months-old episodes of Private Practice and Grey's Anatomy while curled up in bed.  To be fair, I did organize the utensil drawer which so desperately needed it and did some dishes!

Because you know what I realized? That no matter how much I think I can one day clear off all the items on my to-do list and be caught up, it's never going to happen.  Sure, it's partially my fault that I add so much to my list.  But life is going to keep on going.  Deadlines are going to come and go, and days are going to fly by.  And I might as well take it easy every so often and at least attempt to take ONE thing at a time one day out of the week.  Because the world keeps on turning and life keeps on happening no matter how much I have to do or how far behind I am.  So I better enjoy smelling the roses while I can.