There’s a line from the AA poem Just For Today that says: “Just for today I will try to live through this day only, not tackling all of my problems at once. I can do something at this moment that would discourage me if I had to continue it for a lifetime.”
I use this line a lot. I used it even more when my kids were small.
I homeschooled my kids and I was reading the journal I kept back then. I in my first few months homeschooling and my enthusiasm was already flagging. My son woke up one morning and began leaping around asking for our “reading time”, which was how I was starting our day when we first started. I was using the Five in a Row curriculum, which meant reading the same book five days in a row and that week we were reading The Story of Ping. I really thought he’d be sick of the book by the middle