Zebra in a block

Some days its impossible for Dave and I to get 5 minutes alone. Between our children's needs, our phones ringing off the hook some days, emails pilling up, the door bell ringing and functions 1 or both of us needing to attend we have very little time to sit and catch up on our days. 

We needed to speak on a matter so we ran to Olivia's room and shut the door quickly. For whatever reason we thought Olivia's room would be the quiet spot. HA! I was sitting on the chair and Dave laid on the floor and picked up a block. We have alphabet blocks that are clear with little figures in them to associate the letter with a picture. He picked up the Z and it had a zebra in it. He looked up at me and said, " Don't you ever wish you could go back to when things were as simple as Zebra's in blocks?" I think we were over tired cause we both started to laugh. 

Yes I do wish I could go back some days to when I didn't have a care in the world. My mom took care of it all. I dream about not having to think about dinner, laundry, dishes, scheduling. Those days seem so appealing now and when I was in them all I wanted to do was be big! Boy did I rush it. Ever feel like this? We rushed our lives to get here?! If we had really known what our days would be filled with would we have been in such a hurry to get big? 

I think this little zebra in a block is my reminder to slow down, things can wait, people can wait. Don't rush my children to get big and miss out on the simple moments that are right in front of our faces, but because the world around us is complicated we tend to complicate things further. My prayer for you and I today is that we can remember a time where life was all about zebra's in blocks.