Comments for Yves Arsenault http://yvesarsenault.com Thoughts about life Wed, 30 Nov 2011 02:18:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Comment on How well do I listen to my kids? by Yves Arsenault http://yvesarsenault.com/2011/11/28/how-well-do-i-listen-to-my-kids/#comment-16 Yves Arsenault Wed, 30 Nov 2011 02:18:00 +0000 http://yvesarsenault.com/?p=30#comment-16 Thank you very much for the comments Paula! Yes absolutely. Our lives just seem to be filled with so much "busy-ness" that is does take away from our time with the people we love. Time slips away so fast... even as I write this I can't believe it's wednesday tomorrow and half the week is gone. It just flies. When I was self-employed I felt like a chicken with it's head cut off..... always tons to do and worked up to 16 hours in a day. I told myself after a few years of that and then working a day job and a part time job, that I would begin to live and try to prioritize my time around my daughter. Sometimes, I find it really hard to do and I'm obviously not perfect at it. But it's something that I try... try to think about... try to be aware of and even writing about it like this makes me think about it more and helps me be more aware. It would be terrible to be filled with regret. Especially with kids. Glad you enjoyed my "scribbles" Paula! :-) Thank you very much for the comments Paula!

Yes absolutely. Our lives just seem to be filled with so much “busy-ness” that is does take away from our time with the people we love.

Time slips away so fast… even as I write this I can’t believe it’s wednesday tomorrow and half the week is gone. It just flies.

When I was self-employed I felt like a chicken with it’s head cut off….. always tons to do and worked up to 16 hours in a day. I told myself after a few years of that and then working a day job and a part time job, that I would begin to live and try to prioritize my time around my daughter.

Sometimes, I find it really hard to do and I’m obviously not perfect at it. But it’s something that I try… try to think about… try to be aware of and even writing about it like this makes me think about it more and helps me be more aware.

It would be terrible to be filled with regret. Especially with kids.

Glad you enjoyed my “scribbles” Paula! :-)

]]> Comment on How well do I listen to my kids? by Paula http://yvesarsenault.com/2011/11/28/how-well-do-i-listen-to-my-kids/#comment-15 Paula Wed, 30 Nov 2011 01:52:00 +0000 http://yvesarsenault.com/?p=30#comment-15 Wow Yves, great article. I sometimes ask myself that, especially when I lay in bed trying to get my mind to slow down enough to fall asleep.... when I think about how many times Jacob said "'Garde Mam! 'Garde cecette!" ("Look Mommy, Look at this!" for your English readers)... I feel this immediate guilt about how I was "too busy, I've got to get these dishes done", "too busy, I'm making lunches", "too busy, I've got to go to a meeting". Sometimes it doesn't even take the 10 minutes you mention... 30 seconds for goodness sakes and sometimes we're too busy for even that. Craziness. Seems like our life is so filled with "busy-ness" that we don't have time for each other anymore, and that's just not right. So me too, I want to try to ask myself these questions more often, and not only when I lie awake, trying to wrap my head around my day. Time slips away from us so fast, who wants to be filled with regret that we didn't do something better with it??? Wow Yves, great article. I sometimes ask myself that, especially when I lay in bed trying to get my mind to slow down enough to fall asleep…. when I think about how many times Jacob said “‘Garde Mam! ‘Garde cecette!” (“Look Mommy, Look at this!” for your English readers)… I feel this immediate guilt about how I was “too busy, I’ve got to get these dishes done”, “too busy, I’m making lunches”, “too busy, I’ve got to go to a meeting”. Sometimes it doesn’t even take the 10 minutes you mention… 30 seconds for goodness sakes and sometimes we’re too busy for even that. Craziness. Seems like our life is so filled with “busy-ness” that we don’t have time for each other anymore, and that’s just not right. So me too, I want to try to ask myself these questions more often, and not only when I lie awake, trying to wrap my head around my day. Time slips away from us so fast, who wants to be filled with regret that we didn’t do something better with it???

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