When Time is On Your Side...or Not

I often find myself trying to decide what to do with my "spare" time.  I consider spare time the time when there is nothing scheduled on my calendar and I have access to the dishes or laundry that continually haunt me.

Today, I found myself with some spare time. I dropped my son, Josiah, off at hip hop class and had 50 minutes to burn. I have a couple of different things that I normally do with this 50 minutes of freedom.  One thing that I regularly do is sit in my car and clip coupons.  The other thing that I find myself doing is a quick run to the grocery store when we are in need of just a few things.  It's not enough time to do a full grocery shopping trip but if we just need a little fruit, veggies, fruit or cheese I will stop at Aldi's.

This morning I was running a bit late on my day so I only got to exercise for 30 minutes instead of my usual 60 minutes.  I started thinking of how I could make it up.  I remembered that my mom said she was thinking of starting a routine of walking at the mall.  That mall happens to be close to Josiah's dance class so when she happened to call me this afternoon I asked her if she wanted to meet at the mall.

As the day continued I thought about the fact that I really needed to do an Aldi's run for fresh fruit but I had already committed to my mom.  I could always change our plans but I wanted to walk.  I find myself with these choices regularly.  What do I do with my time?  What choices should I make for myself, my healthy, my family and their health. I'm happy with the choice I made today.  I got in a great walk with my mom.  We got to chat without interruption. I got some exercise.  How can I go wrong with that?

I'm so glad she called me and we made the plans early in the afternoon so I didn't have the time to second guess myself and clip coupons or run to Aldi's.  I still found time for Aldi's after dance and all is well (Strawberries were $1.19 and blackberries were $.99).

Have a great day,

Corinna

"For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven; a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to seek, and a time to lose..."-Ecclesiastes 3:1-6