Lilac Window

kids and moms at work.

I just want to put this little toast for the joy of work out there. We all know this little truth, but it gets forgotten, that work is sacred. When life somehow trashes our work, it is so draining. We dont treat work well – we push ourselves too hard, we work on things that we feel are not important, we extend ourselves when it isnt needed, and then we fall exhausted, and miss the important details. Yeah, well, I do anyways.

The joy of a really long vacation is that you can actually get to a point where you are itching to work. Thats a good sign I think. Its a little different for me, being a mom, I take my work with me everywhere. And even though we share the work evenly as mom and dad, its my husband that has felt excited to get back to work.

So, thats actually why we left Courtenay. The bliss of the quiet was left behind, so that we can feel that we are contributing here at Rivendell. While I was visiting friends with the kids, Mark weed-whacked, moved logs, pruned, and helped around the place. Tonight he’ll build the Marimba band a website, and fix the scanner. Such things are a joy when given with love. I gotta remember that.

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