Pretty much everywhere I look in my house, I see incompletion: books half-read, half finished projects, items on their way to being put away when I became distracted, cupboards half-tidy, and half-organised rooms. If I'm not careful, it sends me into a panic. Well worn path.
What do you do to stay in the 'now' and deal with the 'not done'? Sometimes I manage quite well through healthy self-talk and other times there's avoidance involved. Probably the most helpful thing has been to gradually let go of the ideal house and perfect mother that I will never have or be. It really works. How about that?! But to start the letting go feels like an unacceptable capitulation.
That's when big picture thinking charges in on it's white steed flying a banner with images of healthy, happy children, solid connections and engagement with issues outside the family. I'm not sure how all that would actually fit on a banner. Maybe the knight has banner-holding-helpers?
I'm really too zonked after a night of sleeping next to a vomiting little vonerable to be writing this post. Can you tell? Off to nap now.