You know it is a life full of opportunity when you're handling more than you thought you could, and still have things you haven't started yet. It really does make me hope I am not making any repeated mistakes, because there's no time to check to see what the results have been.
This is when the hobby can be most satisfying to me. Competing priorities and the demands of relationship, work and volunteer responsibilities all comes from the same well of time and energy. Making the effort to get to the workbench or layout and make a little progress is always one more thing, but it almost always is satisfying and in any case, it is one step closer to something else off the plate.
For example, somehow we are almost a month past Springfield already. Between new leadership at work pushing hard on items I control and the ongoing process of husbanding a young family with excited, involved kids time takes on different weights. Of course a minute is a minute but when doing two things at once, that minute feels different than when we are relaxing.
'DemClams', however, are a constant - they keep getting bigger. I love an easy Sunday morning coming down to find all three watching cartoons. They get along about as well as a family can, which is both a blessing and fun. It is awesome to be part of raising these kids, and I am grateful to be able to be home as much as I am. And I am especially grateful to Kristen who fills in the gaps and keeps the wheels on the car as we bump along on this journey.
Onto the next moment!
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