Give yourself a break for Spring Break - make things easy, easy, easy.

Something that strikes me a lot since being a parent is how much we "do" these days. I wasn't brought up with this idea of celebrating EVERYTHING - birthdays fine - Easter & Christmas yes - but they lasted a DAY, and I could count the number of gifts on one hand. Things have exploded for the traditional celebrations and we have added more for good measure, a gift for everything, an event every day - it is EXHAUSTING for me & exhausting for them. Does every day need to be a party? Do we need to blow our kids minds with fun and frolics all the time? It feels like we do - I have a noisy boy whose brain is simply blown by the world as it is, I don't need to add stimulus and yet I seem to spend much of my time battling it away or holding contact from his eyes and getting him to breathe. The world is busy, the world is loud and the world is blowing our kids minds. But the world already did that. The world did that when the seasons came, when the fish swam, when the spider caught a bug in it's web. The world already did that when the thunder struck, the seeds grew and puddles splashed their legs. The world was already a party for our kids when it was simple, simple, simple why do we constantly feel that we need to do more, more, more?