Just another Manic Monday!

Here we go again! Monday morning hits, and our crazy routine resumes:

• wake up (after slapping the incessant alarm clock over and over again)
• get ready
• get kindergartner up and dressed and to the breakfast table
• prepare a gourmet breakfast (aka cereal)
  
• get toddler up, comfort and insert medicine as still sick
• get starving baby up (okay in reality she is already up and screaming) and pop bottle in mouth
• make lunch
• check 'take home' school folder to see what we should have done over the weekend (and obviously didn't)
• nag the child who has no sense of time until she is in the car (nice)
  
• drop off kid #1 at school
• stop and get gas (because the magic fairies didn't fill up my car while I slept once again - really fairies! help a girl out!)
• fight the roads into work
• attempt to pick up a trashed office (kid #1 spent 12 hours with me in office yesterday)
• begin to-do list
• give up on to-do list
  
• decide to blog

Okay - giving up on my 'to-do' list is not a normal part of my routine. I'm admittedly a little obsessive compulsive about getting things done. Case in point - this morning my almost 2 year old was still feeling bad. My sweet almost 6 year old decided she wanted to comfort her baby sister. (and hey, if it meant procrastinating getting ready I'm sure she saw it as a win-win).
"Claire," I said, "we have to get our job done first. Finish getting ready, and then you can love your sister."
I know, I know - awful right! I didn't mean it the way it sounded. But as I reflected on this awful parenting moment during the rest of the morning shuffle, I realized once again that my OCD is getting the best of me.
God never shows up on my 'to-do' list. My list is made up of action items. Spending time with God is not really an action kinda thing. And yet my loving God is way more important than anything else I have on my list for today or any day, just as loving her little sister was more important to Claire than getting to school on time.
So, I will learn from my kiddo today. I will do my best to have my priorities be made evident in my actions.

God before me, God behind me, God beside me, God within me, God on the top of my 'to-do' list!