WHAT ARE YOU ENJOYING RIGHT NOW?

While social media has plenty to list in both the pros and cons columns, finding content that really makes you pause, think, and re-consider is one of my favorite pros. Prompted by Adam Grant’s post pictured above, Kate from whatkatefinds dug into this more and one of her followers had a great alternate conversation starter if you’d like to avoid asking the question always presented when you meet someone new socially – what do you do?

What are you enjoying right now?

Try that one instead. And as I’ve found, it’s a really good question to ask yourself when you’re feeling like you’re in a little bit of a rut too. A bit of a good journal prompt if you will.

So what’s on your list? Currently writing this while entering the end of a week of vacation time from work spent going nowhere and with no set plans, I can say slow mornings with planning dinner ideas being the only task I absolutely must do, tracking down a last minute Halloween costume for my son, and going for walks to just look around and enjoy the fact that it finally looks and feels like fall are top of my list.

On a deeper level, I’d say the stage of parenting that is early elementary school age. My almost 7 year old is reading books to me! Watching these big milestones unfold is so surreal to see sometimes. New friends to be made where the connections weren’t a happy byproduct of your parents friendship first, a little more independence for both of us – he can walk himself home from the (half a block away, ha) bus stop after school, I can go off run errands or grab dinner with a friend without him hardly blinking an eye or saying goodbye to me.

Back in the toddler days I would’ve never imagined a day out on the horizon where I didn’t have to sneak out of the house to avoid a mom’s leaving melt down. It’s both refreshing and a little bit sad too to think of how the tides have turned. But isn’t that motherhood for you? Every new exciting thing always follows up with the reminder of how quickly time is passing and how big they’ve gotten, and what I wouldn’t give for just a couple of hours spent in the past with them before jumping back to the present.