Monday Mom Meditation: 18

Do you even get to the end of the week and realize that none of your to-do list got done?

Like where did the week go??

I am currently in a stage where Ford and I are at home a lot together and he wants my full attention AT. ALL. TIMES.

This is a beautiful, exhausting, wonderful time where I physically get to watch him learn new things about the world on a daily basis. I watched him feel and play with Play-Doh for the first time and I also witnessed him “feeding his dinosaurs” this week and playing pretend. (His pretend eating is one of the cutest things I have ever seen.)

He leads me all around the house and points to everything he sees and says, “Wow… cool!” or “Uh-oh, Mama!” There are exclamations of wonder, moments of curiosity, tantrums full of expressions he has no words for, and small simple kisses that fix all wrongs.

I have to constantly remind myself that this stage, just like this week, will pass too quickly. And that is one of the reasons that I want to be wise with my time. I have realized that when I am not intentional with my time, the things on my to-do list tend to stay there. This is okay, sometimes… but I think there is a better way to do it for our family.

Last Sunday, I sat down with Mason and asked him if he would join me in an intentionality calendar*. (I’m not sure if that is a thing, but I just made it one if it’s not.) I wrote out 10 categories that are important to me as a person, Mason and me as a married couple, and the Dyers as a family. In each category, I wrote the goals I had for the week. These were not mandatory, but by writing them down, and then including Mason in it, I felt there was a much bigger chance that it may actually happen. It forced us to look at our calendars and to actually “plan” a date night. It also helped me be more understanding if Mason had a hobby that he wanted to spend time on.

Here is a sample of what it looked like for us.

I’d encourage you to make your own this week and see how it goes! Tonight, my husband and I sat down and looked over our goals and saw how many of them we had accomplished and we also made a new one for the coming week. He even told me that he liked it! WIN!!

*This idea was adapted from the book High Performance Habits by Brendon Burchard.