FULL.

(siiiiiiiigh).

It has been so long. SO long.

Too long.

My life lately has been so...full. Overflowing with highs and lows, goods and bads, smiles and tears, happys and sads. I have felt so blessed and so weighed down. Buoyed up and barely floating. And don't even think I'm running out of metaphors for both ends of a spectrum. I'm just getting started. Ha.

But really. Does life ever get to be so...much...that you don't know how you're making it from one minute to the other? Barely keeping your head above water? I'm going to assume you're all nodding. It makes me feel better.

I'm exhausted.

This week it's preparing for a week-long backpacking trip. And then leaving my kids for ten looooooong days. And I can only hope that aside from totally beating up my happy body, that it rejuvenates my weary little heart. A nice escape to the beautiful, wild outdoors usually does me some good in that respect.


I'm curious to know what your mantras are for keeping your life's busy-ness in check, if you feel like sharing. What do you tell yourself, how do you remind yourself to just keep going, or to reevaluate where your time is spent?