I’ve been accused most of my life of being so serious, when in fact I’m really just very focused and love to have fun.  Just today I was talking with a friend about how the older I get the more I realize how important it is to make time for fun and laughter.  

I grew up chasing the dream and believing if life was going to be good and I was going to be successful it was foot to the pedal no looking back only 100% forward with no time to waste.  Losing my mom at 16 showed me that life was so fragile and sometimes way too short and if I wanted life as I wished it-  it was up to me to make it happen.  Of course I believed and knew God was for me and working all things out but I also believed there wasn’t much time for fun and games when purposes needed to be fulfilled and plans made.

My youngest child is now 5 and while I will be the first to tell you don’t wait till the kids are old enough to have fun, travel and sleep again I did live that way for the first few years of parenting.  We did everything as a family- hiking, traveling and even sleeping- in fact our 5 year old is still in our bed, but of course that’s not the point here this is not a conversation on the fun of a parenting sex life but….  Of course I still count that as fun by the way!  

Ok back on track here, the fun meter can rise and fall so many times a day with blender full of emotions from all the kids running around, the grind and go and rather than schedule your fun as something that happens when I am away from “it all” I realized in order to experience a little more joy and light heartedness having fun was a required ingredient of my daily discipline just like the duties of “doing and working hard.”  So today I learn to mix it up and incorporate fun with my kids at home, away from home and all on my own.  My top 3 of each