Sometimes you just need to rest...

I could learn a lot from my granddaughter.

Sometimes I feel like I just push too hard. I push too hard at work, I push my daughters too hard, I push Leonard too hard, and certainly along with it I push myself too hard. I think I try too hard to make sure everything is as it should be at all times.

Why don't I know that's impossible?

Ellie understands life quite well for an almost-two-year-old. There are really amazingly fun times, there are difficult times (especially when no one is willing to give her whatever she wants at the moment!), and there are just "times". But no matter which one of those times it happens to be, if it's time to take a rest, she takes a rest. She just lets it all go. She doesn't let the worries of the day keep her awake. She doesn't even let the fun keep her awake! When it's time to rest, that's exactly what she does.

I think it's possible I could learn a lot about rest from her. Maybe not sleep, but just being able to rest... even in the busy-ness of the day. Relaxing is highly under-rated.

Just look at Ellie... she went all the way to Galveston to take a nap.