TMI

Let's face it, we live in the information age. At the tips are our fingers exsist any possible piece of information we could every want to know. And it overwhelms us, bombards us. The news. Satellite radio. Facebook, Twitter, Four Square, Google Plus. It's hard enough cramming in the stuff we want to know and then there is the "TMI". The stuff that just doesn't seem to make sense to be out there mudding up our cramped brains. (Come on, you know the people that put the craziest stuff on Faceebook or Twitter. It's like "did I honestly need to read THAT?!?!" But, when is information the sweetest thing ever? When it comes from our kids! I am a self-proclaimed Pinterest nut. I love it. I can't tell you how many spaces in my house have been reorganized, decluttered and streamlined. New recipes tried. New hairstyle picked. Summer parties mapped out!! But this quote from another blogger caught my attention yesterday: "Listen earnestly to anything your children want to tell you, no matter what. If you don't listen eagerly to the little stuff when they are little, they won't tell you the big stuff when they are big, because to them all if it has always been big stuff." (Catherin M. Wallace) Truer words have never been spoken. As parents, we have to admit that we have ALL said to our kids at the moment they are trying to interrupt you for the 31st time that hour "just give me one more minute honey, mommy is trying to finish something." I read that quote and I thought, I don't want my kids to ever think laundry, an email, balance the checkbook or making a grocery list was more important than showing off their dance moves or their latest artwork or telling me their favorite color is red. Aaron calls or texts me a lot, a lot for a 20-year old college sophomore wanting to talk to his step mom. But I love that he calls me to tell me about an A on a test, or the lease he just signed on his first appartment. I hope I give that gift to my girls. To listen to them, to hear them 100% of the time. No matter if it's little or big. Admittedly it may take more effort to do that. Since I didn't roll out of bed at 5 am this morning to work out like I had planned, I tried to fit one in mid-morning. I had to stop and read 2 books to Teagan, put a Rapunzel costume on Maya and have Riley show me her block tower. But, that was more important than my work out. So who cares! So I apologize if I don't respond to every Facebook comment you post or email you send. I am busy talking to my kids and taking it all in. All the TMI in the world!