{"id":353,"date":"2010-09-07T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T00:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=353"},"modified":"2010-09-07T00:40:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T00:40:00","slug":"killer-time-management-for-busy-families-marriage-mondays-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=353","title":{"rendered":"Killer Time Management for Busy Families (Marriage Mondays)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do less&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/TIWI1gTg4YI\/AAAAAAAAJI8\/PDuBGuh8GBo\/s1600\/DSC02192.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/TIWI1gTg4YI\/AAAAAAAAJI8\/PDuBGuh8GBo\/s320\/DSC02192.JPG\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I  picked this topic out of the choices given because it has been  specifically something I am working through of late.  With school  starting up again everything else kicks in to gear; church and social  opportunities as well as activities for the kids and the parents.  I was  full of anxiety as time eaters invaded my schedule.  There was going to  be no time for mistakes, the little things, LIFE&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>As a single  income family of six in the city I find we struggle with the temptation  to try to keep up with the culture around us.  Financial damage is NOT  worth taking on in order to put ourselves out there more.  Family time  equals family health and this highly valuable commodity must be fought  for now a days.  Personally I just can&#8217;t take a crazy pace either.  It  quickly becomes to much for me and I hate missing the moment while I  rush to another moment.  Time is so precious and so easily taken away  from a family.<\/p>\n<p>Less in more in my world&#8230;  The simple life is to  be sought&#8230;  Over and over we must remember it isn&#8217;t the rat race we  want to join but  the race that Paul talks about, that race to <leo_highlight style=\"border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(255, 255, 150); background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 50%; -moz-background-size: auto auto; cursor: pointer; display: inline; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;\" leohighlights_keywords=\"the%20finish%20line\" leohighlights_url_top=\"http%3A\/\/shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com\/leonardo\/plugin\/highlights\/3_2\/tbh_highlightsTop.jsp?keywords%3Dthe%2520finish%2520line%26domain%3Dwww.blogger.com\" leohighlights_url_bottom=\"http%3A\/\/shortcuts.thebrowserhighlighter.com\/leonardo\/plugin\/highlights\/3_2\/tbh_highlightsBottom.jsp?keywords%3Dthe%2520finish%2520line%26domain%3Dwww.blogger.com\" leohighlights_underline=\"true\">the finish line<\/leo_highlight>, that race  with Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>With  all these things heavy on our hearts my husband and I chose this year  to do less then others expect of us.  It isn&#8217;t easy and goes against the  energy outside our front door, the cultural mind set that pushes and  pulls with its demands on a family.   Our main activity this year is to  seek out more time to be, time to be for all six members of the family.<\/p>\n<p>TIME, handle with care!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/avoidingthesandyland.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/nothing-best-kind-of-summer-plans-in-my.html\">P.S.   Check out this link to a post I put up in the middle of our amazing  summer, it relates, and is about all the fun to be had when you have an  abundance of time to do nothing really!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TTFN <!--Session data--><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><!--Session data--><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do less&#8230;I picked this topic out of the choices given because it has been specifically something I am working through of late. 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