Marriage often requires some give and takes.
Well, it was my turn to give, and that meant making a trip to the deer lease.

The deer lease, for the anxious mom, is at the top of the must avoid list:

• Driving late at night with tired, cranky kids
• Fire with kids running around
• Smoke in your face
• Guns
• Bugs

So here I was, sitting by the fire... the automatic negative thoughts were swarming.
This is a disaster. I shouldn't be here. The kids are going to fall in the fire.

Then I pulled out one of my thought management tools from the Love Your Brain formula, and all the negative thoughts stopped instantly.

This tool is loving what is.
This is from Byron Katie's book Loving What Is.

And as I was sitting there watching the fire, I realized I was not loving what is.
I was in my head and not embracing and loving this moment.

My true reality was that I was snuggled closely with my adorable, sleeping 3-year-old, surrounded with good people.

We suffer when we are not living and loving the present moment.

Take a minute today.
Open your heart, and open yourself up to the present moment.