The hustle and bustle has dissipated temporarily as everyone but the baby and I are at a ballgame. I look around me at the mess and disorder and then I look at my tiny newborn as she nurses in my arms. Suddenly the need to restore order pales to the awesome miracle I hold in my arms. The mess will wait. In fact, cleaning up messes is very similar to shoveling in a blizzard and equally as fruitless. I’m doing something far more important…so important that former cares about term life insurance quote…while all well and fine…will just have to wait.

The quiet helps me regain my focus and vision. A brand new beginning…and I get to not only watch it unfold, but I get the supreme privilege of molding and guiding it.

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I thought some readers might be interested in just how pregnant I am looking these days. This picture was taken on Memorial Day a few weeks ago. I had no idea hubby snapped it…usually I’m ready but he snuck this one in on me. Yep…that is all baby there…no need for phentermine for me…I’ll get back down to fighting weight in no time!

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Do you get enough? Do you crave it? If you crave it, you don’t get enough. I know there have been times in my life when I absolutely CRAVED solitude…usually around the times that I had a needy newborn and was running ragged. But, my experience is that solitude is not a want, but rather, a need.

When you have time alone, you are able to:

Think
Get to know yourself
Create
Unwind and kick back
Reflect
Hear your inner voice

Optimally, everyone should have enough solitude that they do not feel compelled to squander it in busyness. Quality solitude will rejuvenate and renew. If you spend your solitude running around trying to get things done, you will not be renewed when your solitude ends and you will be left feeling unfulfilled and unsatisfied.

Find a way to get some solitude each day. For me, solitude is more important than sleep. Although I dearly love my bed, I think I love solitude more. I am willing to get up at 6 am to get an hour of peace before kids start to get up. This is arguably one of the best parts of my day and I’m not sure what I’d do without it.

So…do you get enough solitude? Is it worth it to you to carve out some solitude out of each day? I heartily recommend you give it a try.

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It’s really quite amazing that I don’t have worse dark eye circles than I do, considering the amount of sleep I get each night. As this pregnancy progresses, the discomforts are mounting. Between horribly swollen feet and ankles to heartburn to just plain ol’ uncomfortable…I am not sleeping the greatest. Hubby is being very sweet…going so far as to suggest that I need to stay in bed longer to keep my feet higher than my heart. Honestly though…how on earth can I subtract another hour from my day? Stress mounts…

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Is anyone else having a hard time with these months disappearing? We are already fast approaching the end of April. Do you know what that means? It means I inch ever closer to needing to get serious about finding a treatment for wrinkles because I will be marking off another year on the old tree. Yep…on Monday, I’ll be 43. How can that be? Not only are the months disappearing alarmingly, but the years are too.

‘Course, it’s hard to feel THAT old when I have a wriggling, squirming bundle inside me growing and thriving until it is finally time to meet her…but I confess that I don’t even to pregnancy that well anymore now that I’m older. It’s harder, that’s for sure!

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I am sitting here in a completely quiet house. Hubby has taken the kids on a bike ride and they will probably be gone for at least an hour. Doesn’t sound like a long time does it? Well…no, it’s not…but it’s amazing how I can recharge in as little as an hour.

I’m going to finish this post and then putter around the house for a bit. Puttering is one of my favorite pastimes when I have extra time. I rearrange trinkets, do a little clutter control, restore a little order…and all the while I can be alone with my thoughts without anyone intruding or wanting something from me.

I like my solitude in complete silence…probably because I am so often barraged with noise when the kids are around. I don’t need music or any background noise at all to feel completely at peace. I used to be a background noise person, but all that changed when the house filled up with people, I guess.

When I finish my puttering, I will probably curl up with cross stitch and try to get 15 or 20 minutes of cross stitching done on my sampler. I will consider that a beneficial hour of solitude.

How do you spend your solitude?

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How important is your television to you? For example, does your home feature a Samsung HDTV sitting prominently in a main room for the family’s viewing pleasure…or perhaps you and I have something in common and you have a MUCH smaller little set sitting quietly in a corner that is used from time to time for a special diversion or distraction.

I’ll give you another idea of how important television is to us…no, we do not have a converter box on any television in our house. Nope – no programming at all for us. We watch only videos and DVDs on our televisions and use the Internet for any live news we may need.

Know what? We’re perfectly happy!

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I unexpectedly found myself wandering around in the library the other day. After checking out, I walked past the cart where they invariably have a selection of books for sale. Suddenly, my eye caught something and I screeched my brakes to a halt. The entire 15-volume set of 1967 Childcraft Books for sale! $10!!!!! Unbelievable! I thumbed through them and they are in perfect condition…hardly even used!

I hurriedly scooped up my treasure and trotted back to the circulation desk to pay for these beauties before they slipped through my hands. Ah…what a find!

They are now home and my project for the day is finding the perfect home for these – probably right next to our World Book set.

Made my week!

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How do your days go by? In a blur? In slow motion? My days tend to go in a blur if I allow it. I find that staying conscious of the minutes ticking into hours helps slow the blur a little. How I wish filling the wrinkles with wrinkle filler was as easy as filling the days with STUFF. Each day is a constant challenge to minimize the fluff and keep it pared down to the important things.

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Can you believe we are ten year into the new millennium already? I so clearly remember ten years ago, entering into the year 2000…all the anxiety and trepidation that centered around turning over that milestone. And here we are ten years later.

How have the first ten years of this millennium been for you? As the days pass how do they stack up? Have you ever thought about the days that accumulate to become a week…a year…a decade…a lifetime? I was just thinking last night about these days that we are given. Some end up having more than others…but each of us are given these 24-hour blocks of time that are gifts when you think about it. An hour would be too short and a year would be too long. Days are just the right length of time for us to manage ourselves and our lives. As the earth rotates one complete turn we are given this time to keep putting one foot in front of the other and march through life. We get a sunrise and a sunset each day. We get a brand new chance each morning to get up and make something out of this untouched and unsullied day. When you begin to use the days effectively, you will see them begin to stack up–one good day after another good day–until soon you have a great year, a great decade and a great life.

Remember…yesterday is gone. It disappeared as you renewed yourself in sleep. There’s nothing you can do about what happened yesterday except learn from it. Also, tomorrow isn’t yours yet. You cannot have the gifts of tomorrow yet and you cannot solve tomorrow’s problems.

You only have TODAY. Live it…be in it. What will you do with today?

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