Celebrate the In-Between Times!
“Real life” most often happens during the in-between times when we are not celebrating a special occasion.
This coming month’s occasions for me include my birthday and my wedding anniversary! And this month was both my grandson’s graduation from high school and my stepson’s birthday and anniversary.
So, I guess I’m in one of my in-between times.
While moving from just one moment in time to the next is seldom considered a significant occurrence, I find that it is during my in-between times that I am often most in tune with life’s simple joys.
There are innumerable experiences that often happen 
unnoticed:
- The warm twilight time when I sit out on my little deck and just relax,
- Finding and enjoying a really good book,
- Reminiscing with my husband about our wonderful ballroom dancing days,
- Eating the last saved hot-cross bun from the freezer until next Easter time!
These in-between times are just as worthy of celebration as the special occasions. Between birth and death, beginnings and ending, we have many more moments than “occasions.”
Celebrating the in-between times is often as easy as paying special attention to them rather than taking them for granted.
It’s our focus of attention that can turn an in-between time into a celebration. We can slow down and allow ourselves time to look around and allow our hearts and minds time to look around, breathe, and just take it all in.
And after all, without the in-between times, there would be no big moments to celebrate!
What in-between times do you treasure?