Contentment Mine
Posted by Danielle Bean in Family on Monday, January 19, 2009 3:00 PM
With the frigid weather in recent days and a few head colds going through the house, we’ve been staying home more than usual.
I make the obligatory runs to basketball practices and games, but trips to the store, the library, and visiting friends have been kept to a minimum.
This makes life both harder and easier. Harder, of course, because we can go a little stir crazy in the house, day after day. But easier in that it allows me to focus on my family and my work inside the house without distraction.
I have found it easier to keep internal peace and a sense of well-being by focusing on one small task at a time and accepting the season we are in. In fact, I thoroughly appreciate the rhythm that changing seasons bring to our lives.
In a few months, warm and sunny days will be ours again. The sweet smell of fresh grass will fill our lungs, the gentle glow of late-day sunshine will fill my kitchen, and I will bathe sun-kissed bodies at the end of outdoor days as I struggle to stay on top of cleaning eternally muddied wood floors.
But today, I have a mountain of laundry and quiet moment in which to fold it. I have a blazing wood stove to sit beside as I fold. I have children immersed in imaginary games of knights and dragons, babies and tea parties. I have a small boy whose warm body leans into mine as I fold, his eyelids growing heavy.
In this moment, right now, I have contentment.
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