For the past two weeks I’ve been telling Mr. Byrd that I wanted to go pick strawberries. His reply every time was, “just go do it!”. Even though I’m home all day I still have things I have to get done.
There’s clothes to wash and fold, kids to educate, errands to run, dishes taking over my sink and so much more. Its been a busy past few weeks and I felt like I was never going to make it before the season ends here in Texas, which is soon.
Then last week I looked at the weather forecast and realized that if we didn’t make it on Friday, we wouldn’t make it for another week. So I ditched the plans and we went to pick strawberries.
And you know what? It was lovely.
I am so thankful that I put the other “stuff” to the side and made time for that day.
The kids had a blast, everyone left with strawberry red lips that has been stained from the juice and the weather could not have been better.
It wouldn’t have happened if I wouldn’t have stopped being busy.
Yes, we suffered with a very dirty house that weekend and not all of the school work got done on Friday.
But the day was worth it.
Don’t forget to push the things you feel like you have to do to the side sometimes just to create those special times with your kids.
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