After the timer stops... What's next?

To see my actual Five Minute Friday post keep scrolling below this post. To read what comes to mind AFTER the timer stops... this is your place. ;) 
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It cracks me up that when the timer stops Friday morning the words start to pop into your head like milk and honey from Heaven. Why is that so? Am I trying too hard to make the words appear to fill this vast white box in front of me? I guess though it really comes down to just writing what first comes to mind when we read the prompt and explore where 5 minutes takes us.

I sit here "in between" (see what I mean) a cup of coffee and the rising sun ponder how to get in between my to-do list before the craziness of this weekend starts. Dust bunnies that need to find a new home. Comforters and laundry that desperately need washed and put away. Floors screaming to be mopped.

Cause none of us have any of those, right?
Right???

I don't understand where the days of our summer break have gone? I knew it would be a fast summer break for us since we are diving into a year round schedule, but still it seems to have gone poof into the wind. Of course it has been filled with much, and I wish it could have been filled with more. Someday it will be, right? The in between of finding time to accomplish all that needs to be done.

How do you even do that?

It seems so far beyond my comprehension.
I guess I am learning to live in between the hills and valleys of life.

A wonderful friend and mentor of mine was explaining to me a few months back that (and I paraphrase) "That find balance in life is learning that it doesn't always have to be, and it won't probably ever, be a flat line of balance you are walking. Instead it is learning to move with the peaks and valleys that are your seasons and maneuvering the balance that each season calls for. It won't stay the same so stop trying to strive to keep it the same. You have to move with the waves as they come."

I need to remember that as I navigate through my in between right now. I need to ask myself has my path shifted to a peak or a valley? Am I trying to hold steady from a season that has passed and its time to reposition?

Ooo the food for thought that just brought on.