making a commitment to live the in between moments.

I was talking with a friend the other day telling her how I wanted to learn how to enjoy the in between times. I am always so focused on the next big event that I miss out on the ordinary day that is the next event. I just need to look at it differently.
I am always looking at the next holiday, birthday, vacation, dinner out, anniversary. Something other than looking at each day and finding the event in that day.
I am truly taking the time to be with who ever I am spending time with. Not thinking about the next thing I am off to do. It takes something so simple as just standing and talking in the grocery store to a whole new level. That is the moment
When you see something on the side of the road you find that is beautiful. Pull over, get out of the car and look at it more closely. I look back to just 2 days ago when Dan and I were driving down a street and the wind hit the trees and the leaves were blowing out of it like crazy ( like snow). I should have got out of the car and just let them fall on me. I am going to do that next time. That is the moment.

Last year on the way to my uncles funeral in Pendleton Oregon it was in the fall. Dan, Rachael and I went and along the road is this amazing tree farm. I mean amazing. We pulled over and looked down the thousands of thousands of rows of trees. we even took pictures of each other. that was the moment and I will never forget it.