I was really fortunate that our October calendar is pretty clear when I committed to writing about white space. We’re finishing up with the building of our home, and we have our regular commitments to our church and our family. But I love that I’m not scheduled to leave town at all this month.
A Saturday with my family is one of my favorite things. Especially a no-plans Saturday.
In design, white space gives the eye an opportunity to rest. In life, white space gives my soul an opportunity to rest. To see the good. The really, really good.
What do I want for today? How will I make the most of my time and leave room for white space?
I want to sip my coffee slowly.
I want to get down on the floor and play Candyland with Hudson.
I want to take the boys to the pumpkin patch to pick out their first pumpkin for the year. And maybe even get our hands dirty carving it!
I want to read my book during naptime while Todd watches football.
I want to get a handle on all of this laundry, and put it away so it doesn’t clutter my space and my mind this week.
I want to watch Homeland with Todd on Sunday night, and catch up on Dateline on the DVR.
I want to look around and see that “this is good.” All of this is so good. It’s not meant to rush and hurry so I completely miss it.
What do you want for your day?
This is day 5 of 31 Days of Creating White Space. You can read the other posts here.
I unfortunately have a lot of studying to do this weekend and a trip out of town for work but I plan on savoring all of my free time running, spending time with my husband, and catching up with friends.
Naptime is usually work time for me. But yesterday afternoon I saw my patience getting short as we were on our way home from haircuts and knew that I needed some quiet and to be still. So, I cracked open a book and relaxed. Did wonders for my mood!
Loving your posts! And I deleted FB on my phone this morning because I check in way too many times and your post about social media gave me the nudge I needed to do that! I am working on SS lesson this morning and laundry so that the rest of my day is open to my family and maybe a wee little nap 🙂
Love this! I so needed a white space day here! I am out of town every weekend in October in some capacity and while it’s all for exciting things, I am dreading it a bit. Today was much needed to just sit and be here with the fam! I’m positive that we all needed it. On a side note, I started Homeland on my way to the conference and I am dying to have Sean get caught up on it, so we can watch together! It’s so good!!!! Happy Saturday! xoxo!
I always feel best when I can get all the chores, errands, etc done by dinner time so we can spend time together as a family when we’re done cleaning up the kitchen. That’s when I’m the most relaxed — when all the “have to’s” are behind us and just the “want to’s” lay before us. And when the house is clean and straight, of course.
I need to get our laundry under control too because when it’s out or I know that it’s overflowing it does clutter space and therefore my mind! Do you use a schedule?