Juggling Act - Part One!

My absolute favorite picture in a long time!

Lately I've been trying to figure out how to make everything work, and fit in our schedule, in a beneficial and enjoyable manner.

Fall has started and with it come baseball for Doster, horse lessons for Caroline, AWANA for all of us, preschool, school, church, friends and family....oh and Jason and I both work full time somewhere in there too.

We want the kids to enjoy and try one sport or interest a year...and if they enjoy it then that can be their choice the next year.

Sooo, we have 2 kids able to partake in that privilege right now and we love seeing them have fun and enjoy their activity. But all this running is just not in our genes. We don't like it, we don't thrive in it and we know it wears us all down which - in the Flowers family - results in exhaustion and meltdowns...from all FIVE of us.

But, we know that church is important, exercise is important for Jason & I, Bible Study is a need for he and I, AWANA is important, we know that their baseball or horse lessons are important, and school is an obvious necessity. Besides all that, we really need friends, family and community.

See our confusion and wonder over the right decisions?

Our schedule is a balancing act right now and I'm just waiting for that first curve ball that is going to throw us all for a loop and leave us all sitting in the dust wondering what just happened.

I am assuming this is just the stage we are in and we make the best of it and work through it, making decisions as they come along. But, as Jason and I do, we reevaluate all the time to make sure we are in the right place and doing the right thing for our family. So...I'm left to ponder and pray about all of this on a daily basis, asking the Lord to guide both of us in the right direction in our decisions over our family activities.

Do you have a tried and true method to your madness that seems to work for your family? I'd love to hear it!