Good Morning Girls!  Have you ever experienced a "minivan moment"?  A minivan moment occurs when you are driving your kids around town to dance, hockey, and swim lessons- and in between pick ups you run to the grocery store, bank, post office, and library.....and somewhere during all of that you start to think: "Is this really all my life is?"  "Is this the plan the Lord has for me?" "Am I ever going to be or do anything more than a chauffeur, cook, and cleaning lady?"  These thoughts seem to escalate when the kids are crying or fighting in the back.   When I feel this way it reminds me of those old Calgon bath commercials where the mom is completely fed up and says "Calgon take me away!".  Next thing they show is the mom relaxed and at peace in a hot bubble bath.

I don't know if they even make Calgon anymore......and that's okay, because when I have a minivan moment, instead of looking to Calgon, I look to the Lord.  I look to the Lord in the form of daydreaming.  I imagine different things I could do for the Lord with my life.  I picture myself traveling and speaking to hundreds of people.  I picture myself writing in a coffee shop.  I picture myself being interviewed by someone like Larry King, or Oprah (I'm serious).  I imagine different businesses I could run.  I picture myself selling my cupcake t-shirts out of a mini van at a women's conference.  I think of all the ways I could turn What Real Women Do into an actual "thing" (whatever that is). I daydream about these things because they make me smile.  They make me laugh (you have got to be laughing at the thought of me and Larry).  They are fun and exciting to think about.

"But Jen.....what if none of those things ever happen?"  That's okay.  It's okay because the very thought of them is what gets me through my minivan moment.  It is what helps me see that I am more than a chauffeur, cook, and cleaning lady- even if it is only in my head.  Besides, what else is there to do?  I suppose I could meditate on my problems, but somehow that doesn't make me smile.  Besides, all the meditation in the world does not solve my problems.  Meditating on a daydream however.....well some days that is what keeps me going!

Proverbs 29:18 KJV Where there is no vision, the people perish
Jen Gilbert Translation Where there is no daydreaming....the mother goes bonkers.......

Love, thanks, and daydreams to you all-
Jen