How do you relax? What is your favorite thing to do? My husband LOVES to sit outside and have a fire. Of course, living in the south there are few times that it is cold enough to have a fire. This winter, we were able to have a few fires on the patio and just be.

In our world were he is constantly coaching and I am constantly chasing two boys, running a school, now running a preschool, writing a blog, writing a dissertation, we need that time to just be. As a family to just be… Now little secret…. shhhhhhh don’t tell….. I hate to be cold, so sitting outside in the cold even with a fire isn’t very relaxing to me (so I warm up with a glass of red), but I do it anyway. It makes my husband happy to just be. Whether we talk or not, we listen to the crack of the fire and wood…. it’s just us!

“In today’s rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just being.” – Eckert Tolle