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Posted in Daily Entry. on Friday, January 29th, 2010 by mattdaddy
Jan 29

Take a minute. Take 5. Slow down, you’re moving way too fast. Got to make the morning last… heh, sorry. Sometimes my fingers just keep typing.

We sometimes run through life so quickly that we don’t take the time to smell the flowers…or is it roses? Who knows. WHO CARES!

Take a deep breath. Read to your kids. Give your wife/husband a hug just because you love them. Go do something you’ve always wanted to do, but never dared to. Life is too short to keep running so fast that you never see things flying by you unappreciated or un-looked at. (yeah, so my grammar sucks, it’s my blog :P )

I’ve been running around like a loon for the last several weeks and months, slowly working up a killer of a stress pile. I’ve had a bunch of stuff finish up, happen, resolve itself and it just occurred to me that I’ve been fairly absent from my own life because I’m too damn worried about what’s next, and how am I going to handle that, or waiting for THIS to happen and can’t do much until it does, etc.

It all starts with a breath. Going to take a deep one, finish up a thing or two, and go home and spend a nice weekend with family and friends and hopefully have a chance to rehook into my own life.

Fae – thank you for all of your help, love, support, and just putting up with my grumpy ass. I love you more than life.

6 Comments

  1. terri on January 30th, 2010

    That’s a good little reality check right there. I think sometimes I do the same thing… get so busy worrying, doing, moving on to the next thing, that I don’t notice the here and now.

    Hope your weekend is relaxing and fun!
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  2. secret agent woman on January 30th, 2010

    One good thing about snow it forces a slow down. I’ve got my boys plus an extra and we’ve been eating pizza and watching movies. Nice.
    secret agent woman´s last blog ..Silly Wabbit My ComLuv Profile

  3. Mike on February 1st, 2010

    Funny how quickly time can slip by. I try to stay grounded in the realization that every day, whatever happens, will shape the way my kids see and occupy their world. I can tune in and be a part of that, or I can busy myself with other “stuff” and be an absentee father. The choice seems easy enough, but playing it out gets hard sometimes. On those rare occasions that the work simply can’t wait, I can only hope that when I get the chance to tune back in, they’re still interested. So far, I’ve been lucky, and I know that I wouldn’t trade my life with my family for anything in the world.

  4. mattdaddy on February 1st, 2010

    it’s amazing how quickly they grow up and time just slips by. I’m taking some extra time inbetween big projects to spend as much time with Fae and the kids.

    One more whopper happening on Friday and it doesn’t get easier, but becomes a LOT more manageable.

    thanks for stopping by y’all :)

  5. Mike on February 15th, 2010

    That’s some good advice right there. Trying to be successful seems to require a lot of time. It’s easy to overlook the important things in the process.
    Mike´s last blog ..The Early Bird Got the Worm… or Something My ComLuv Profile

  6. Fae Cushing on March 1st, 2010

    “Life is too short to keep running so fast that you never see things flying by you unappreciated or un-looked at.”

    That was a pretty impressive run-on sentence, honey! Just don’t let me see you ending a sentence with a preposition:) The bigger sin in this post is that you’re quoting “Feelin’ Groovy”, one of the few songs I know that gives me apoplexy. Worse than running your nails down a chalkboard or chewing on tin foil. Couldn’t you quote Seal or something?:)

    I know how hard you work to keep our family on it’s feet, and I’m sorry that I sometimes add to your stress. You get up before the sun, work your ass off every day, and come home and take care of me and the kids. I don’t know the last time that you got more than 5 hours of sleep. You are the kindest, gentlest, strongest, most beautiful man that I’ve ever known, and I’m grateful every day that you’re mine.

    Even with the grammatical errors:)



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