Pensive Procrastination

It's times like these that I struggle to know what to write. It seems like so much is happening and there is so much information out there that I don't want to add to it unnecessarily or to some extent uselessly. I kept wondering if what I have to say is really important enough to type out, but I realized that I like hearing other people's thoughts and how they are processing everything that is going on. I keep wanting to hear it, despite the fact that I've already heard and read other people's experiences, because everyone's experience is unique and the ways that they're responding to it and caring for themselves and others is creative and individual. So, who knows, maybe one of you will connect with my experience or will feel less alone in yours. Things are starting to feel more normal around here. They say it takes about 14 days to make a habit, so I guess it makes sense that as we get closer to hitting that two week mark of physical distancing and isol

I had started a post about two weeks ago on the power of "no". I was in the middle of writing it when my youngest woke up early from his nap. I figured I would finish it that weekend while away at my in-laws...which, as you have probably deduced, didn't happen. When we arrived back home on the Sunday it was the beginning of Covid-19 really starting to impact Canadian life and it felt strange to pick up on the Monday as if there wasn't this huge change happening all around us. I kept reopening the post hoping to, in some way, adapt it to the ever-changing world around me. However, as the days continued to move forward the possibility of doing that seemed, well, impossible. So I have decided to start a new post kind of addressing the situation we all find ourselves in and then perhaps I will go back to completing that old post with all it's starts and stops. I'm not even sure where to begin... For a while I found it difficult to even process my thoughts as

I've been wanting to write on this idea all week, but whenever I finally sat down and turned on the computer every thought I had about it left my mind. So, I'm going to try just starting and see where it goes...and also hope that both my kids sleep long enough that I get a chance to finish my thoughts (ha!). Recently my eldest has become obsessed with Frozen...which means I'm asked at least 5 times a day to "play Elsa" or "play let it goooooo, let it gooooOOOO". By this he means for me to play the Frozen music generally "Do You Want to Build a Snowman" or "Let it Go". So, I have found myself immersed often in these two songs...so maybe I've just had a lot of time to overthink the lyrics and read more into them than is there. However, I remember the first time I head Let it Go and I was struck by the symbolism in the song. It may have hit me more strongly because my friend's 6-year-old niece was belting away to it in the back