Me Rambling

How much do I miss because I am busy, because I am so focused on what needs to get done and not what is happening around me? To be honest, I don't know and I am sure I am missing things every second of everyday. That being said, I am not going to focus on the things I am missing....the "what if's" (had a huge conversation about those with my daughter). I am going to focus on what I do get to experience. For example, yesterday I just sat in my chair and watched my children all afternoon. I watched my oldest son sit for 3 hours and play with play-doh yesterday (if you know my oldest, then you know that that is truly an answer to prayer). I watched my middle son just being his funny little self and I can tell you I laughed and laughed watching that little guy. I sat with my daughter and watched the video of Sundays worship at ParkSide and I sang songs to my baby boy to make him smile and laugh. It was amazing, surreal, exciting, soul warming...And as I type this now....I wonder if maybe by focusing on these moments and trying to enjoy them for them beautiful fleeting moment they are that I will begin to be more aware of these moments when they are happening and through that I will end up missing less and less of the special moments.