Disconnecting

Bright and early tomorrow morning, we pack up our cars (yes, we bring two cars) and head off to the lake for ten whole days. I, for one, cannot wait. Ben and I have both been flat out with work, traveling for work, life, sick kids, you name it. Nothing in our life is bad - quite the contrary in fact - it's just busy. And lately, I have been trying to juggle way too many balls at once, and have dropped a few more than I'd like to admit to. I recently read a Buddhist quote that really resonated with me - it said, "Do what you're doing right now." My life is directly oppositional to this statement that I so very much aspire to. I have conversations with my kids while reading work emails on my Blackberry; I write my grocery list in my head while shavasana-ing during yoga class; I fold laundry while on a conference call. Like most moms, I have to admit that I am pretty darn good at multi-tasking, but at the end of the day, I realize I wasn't really present for any one of those various activities because my brain was somewhere else. This is my truth, this life I have chosen, with one leg in the working world and one leg in full-time mommyhood. Sometimes it all feels like such a perfect balance, but in all honesty, those times are rare - most of the time it feels much more like I'm walking a tightrope. So I am really, really looking forward to shutting down for a few days, dropping the electronic devices that are perennially attached to my hands, and just being. I really need a few days to just be. Be with my family, be with myself...be happy.

Until we return...