To-Enjoy Rather Than To-Do

With Christmas being just right around the corner (literally) our minds are consumed with Christmas dinners to make, gifts that still need to be wrapped (and possibly bought), cleaning up the house so it's ready for guests, and remembering to charge the camera for Christmas Day. Coordinating schedules for everyone can feel exhausting, but let me encourage you to still make time for memories this season!

Memories don't come easily. It demands that we put other things off to put something else on. In other words, everything else takes second place (if but for a moment) to achieve a memory. 

Over the weekend I purchased pretzels and chocolate and gulf wax and sprinkles. All the fun and necessary items needed to make chocolate covered pretzels with my daughter. I intended to actually make these over the weekend with her, but as fate would have it, there were plenty of other things that got in the way.

Yesterday was no different. Plenty of things piling up at my house to do. I needed to get myself ready for the upcoming evening out. I had a few gifts that still needed wrapping. The house was a mess from the morning's activities and the laundry was beckoning to me. But my 15 month-old son was sleeping, and it seemed like a perfect time to get out the supplies that had been intended to be used a few days ago.

So we made chocolate covered pretzels, and she thought it was great, just like any kid would. We had Christmas music on, we tasted the chocolate and pretzels as we went, and she had a fabulous time dumping sprinkles all over her pretzels. When it was all said and done and I was cleaning up the kitchen, I was grateful for that time with  my daughter. I still needed to get myself ready, and the house didn't magically clean itself up, but I surely did not look back on that time with regret.

It's tempting to put the "little things" at the bottom of the bottomless to-do list, isn't it? Christmas is only 5 short days away, but challenge yourself to do a few things from your "to-enjoy" list instead of always choosing your "to-do".