My wife and I lead a pretty simple life. I work from home at a low-stress job. She is a stay-at-home mom. We have a small house, a garden, and some chickens. But we have a 3-month-old and a two-year-old. Nothing about our life feels slow or simple. On top of watching the kids there’s always tons cleaning to do and house repairs and upkeep. How do you balance things that aren’t optional like vehicle/house maintenance, upkeep, and raising kids? Is simple living just a luxury of those who don’t have kids?
Or are we already living simply and it just doesn’t FEEL simple?
I totally hear you and I have a lot of chaos in my house with a 5 and 2 year old, but it’s getting better. As others have said, you’re in the thick of it. Take solace in that its gonna get better.
Something some one told me that helped a lot is to get into the mindset of “living in moments” for now. You probably still have tons of little moments that can be simple. The five minutes it takes to make your coffee in the morning, your commute to work, those few minutes chatting with you wife before sleeping. Try to notice those moments and really drink them in and let them fill you instead of slipping by. Also, when you notice those moments, purposefully lay down the tension from the 45 minute meltdown you just handled, because that’s over, and try to just live in that moment a while, cause in another five minutes you’re gonna be cleaning up a blowout lol.