Is This Real Life?

I don’t know what it is about fall that has got me reflective.

Maybe it’s the golden leaves lazily floating to the ground in the dappled late afternoon sun.

Or maybe it’s the tang of the coming winter that I sense as the breezes flow past my cheek; rippling my hair against my temple.

Whatever it is - it’s reminding me that this is the last autumn that my son will be in the single digits. The last fall of my daughter’s toddlerhood.

They are difficult kids sometimes, for sure.

But right now…they are playing together in the low-60 degree afternoon sun without issue.

And for a moment - I can see what I expected parenting to be like.

Not the chaos and fights and refereeing.

But a minute to watch my kids and breathe in this moment of life.

Not to hurry and rush and run haphazardly from one place to the next, one activity to the next.

But to just be. Be present.

This is the moment that freelancing has given me.

//Inhale the earthy-sweet scent of fall.//

This is a moment that entrepreneurship has given to me.

//Hear the soft ”throp” of the leaves hitting the ground and the “shhhhhh” of the breeze through the drying leaves.//

This is a moment that God has given me.

//Seeing my children and really enjoying the short time I have with them.//

This is more than I could have ever asked for or imagined. This is LIFE.