Last night while I was laying down on the couch and looking very tired, my eleven year old son summed up everything that I needed to do relax.
He said, “Mom all you need to do is take a day off. Do nothing and do not worry about anything. Trust me it works.”
His wisdom had me totally flabbergasted! Out of the mouth of babes, indeed! Where on earth did this kid get this intuitiveness from? I would like to think that God has used him as a mouthpiece to get me to truly believe that I really do not have to worry about anything.
It seems easy enough to do but the struggle to do nothing is real. I love knowing I did something meaningful or that I achieved something at the end of the day. I brainstorm on ways that I can extend 24 hours because I am a full time working mom that wants to do more because the dreams that I have before I became a wife and a mother are still alive in my heart. I still need to define me and the purpose of why I am here.
Ok rant over. I’m out of my soapbox. Please tell me I am not alone and that my drama is real and not imagined. I told my daughter who is away for college that “adulting” is hard work.
I do have to take heed of my son’s pearl of wisdom. I need to take a vacation day sometime soon and plan on doing nothing and not worry one iota. I know its counterintuitive that I need to plan to do nothing, right? Let’s face it, I still have to work for my family and there are other people depending on me as well.
How about joining me in having a Project Nothing Day? I know it’s also called a Sabbath Day but I have to be honest – I still worry and try to do something on my rest day.
Project Nothing Day is a day of no activities planned or unplanned activities (let’s be spontaneous), no worrying, no kids (at least until they come back from school), no laundry, no cleaning house, etc.
It’s going to be a day of absolutely nothing.
Who wants to do it with me? Let us see if we can relax and just be. Shall we?
Vian Wheatley 