10/13/2026
Not Just More Hours to Liveโฆ More Life in the Hours We Already Have. ๐ฟ๐
Yesterday with a house full of kids, after an interesting day of work, and despite all the thing life has a funny way of piling on, ๐๐งฑ๐๐ฉ๐พโ๐พ I found myself in the kitchen.
Homemade cinnamon roll pull apart for breakfast with a pot of champurrado. Sourdough pizza dough rising between work tasks... and eventually, a kitchen table full of little hands creating their own pizzas, spooky s'mores, and ridiculously customized popcorn. ๐คฃ๐๐
It was a lot, and somehow, it was the least exhausting part of my day.
I've been sitting with that realization.
Some things take our energy and leave us feeling emptied. Other things take our energy and somehow leave us feeling more like ourselves.
I think there's something incredibly important in recognizing the difference.
So often, we talk about needing more time. More hours in the day. More weekends. More opportunities to rest, catch up, or finally get around to the things we've been putting off... like winterizing and updated fencing ๐
But what if it isn't always about needing more time?
What if sometimes we're simply longing for more of our time to feel like it actually belongs to us?
Time to create. To connect. To laugh. To nurture something. To be present without mentally calculating what comes next.
Not because those things require less effort, but because they give something back.
As we step into another Tuesday of schedules, responsibilities, work demands, school routines, appointments, and the endless logistics of keeping life moving, I think this may be something worth remembering.
Being busy isn't always what exhausts us. Sometimes it's how little of ourselves we get to experience within all that busyness.
So cheers to being more intentional about recognizing what fills my cup (REST Included ๐คช), what empties it, and how much of my life I'm spending simply getting through the day rather than getting to live it.
Not just more hours to live. More life in the hours we already have. ๐๐ even when that means updating goat fencing & prepping coops for winter ๐คฃ.
Happy Tuesday Y'all!!