Carefree Timelessness

What is Carefree Timelessness? Matthew Kelly explains it perfectly from his book "The Rhythm of Life. Living Everyday with Passion and Purpose."

Most of us know that the happiest people on the planet are those who are focused on their personal relationships.  Relationships thrive under one condition: carefree timelessness.  Do we gift our relationships with carefree timelessness?...We have to make carefree timelessness a priority.  The nature of carefree timelessness is to be timeless.  You lose track of time. Carefree timelessness is carefree.  It has nothing to achieve other than the enjoyment of each other's company.  Teenagers are experts at this.  How often do parents ask their teenagers when they are going out with friends, "Where are you going?" The children reply, "I don't know!"  Of course, we may consider this an unacceptable answer, but it may well be the truth.  Carefree timelessness.  It is the reason young people fall in love so easily.  The lack of carefree timelessness is the reason the rest of us fall out of love so easily.  Carefree timelessness cause us to fall in love with life and others.  The first thing that you need to do is schedule it.  Now I hear the objection in the back of your mind.  You are thinking,  if I have to schedule it then it is not carefree timelessness. Not so.  Think back to our definition of carefree timelessness, as time spent without an agenda.  I didn't say that it is unscheduled and will happen all on it's own.  We know it won't. We have to schedule it, but we don't have to have an agenda."

Carefree timelessness sums up our Christmas break.  It was glorious! This picture also sums up the majority of my day "Mom, mom, mom, I'm hungry. Mom, I'm bored what can I do. Mom, Mom do you want to play a game. Mom, Mom..." This was a real life moment that Reid captured when he came home early to work from home because of the weather.

which then turned in to more silliness...have you ever sat with your legs up on the wall.  Try it, it's pretty great. And then it turned in to this...

 Of course we did! and we laughed the entire time

 Jamesie had fun playing with his Dinosaurs now that his room is super organized and he can find everything!

 Elizabeth helped organize books by color

 and Daddy built the shelf we picked up from Target that was pictured in the last post and Mom found a place for all the things!

 New Year's Eve I took the Bigs out for a day of skiing. We had so much fun

 After a while, Daddy brought the Littles out so they could watch us Ski and Emma got to try a few runs down the Bunny hill!

 Thank you to Lucy for helping to teach her to ski too.  Emma is using the skis she once used!

 Slowly but surely I'll turn our family in to a skiing family ;)

 So fun running in to some of our favorites and getting to ski with them!

 After New Year's Day Mass we headed over to friends' house to skate and sled in their backyard. Childhood memories in the making!

 and then we made it home in time to cheer on our Gophs! What a game! So much fun cheering with my Craigy!

Happy 2020 may it be filled with lots and lots of carefree timelessness!