Are you B.U.S.Y., B.U.S.Y.?

I've so many thoughts swirling in my head, I almost didn't write again today. Seems contradictory, but I know the time to get all my thoughts down is longer than the time I have to spend on the computer today.
The Imp is sleeping in, but I need to wake her shortly so we can go driving. She got her permit over the summer and we went out a few times over the summer but haven't been since. When she's at school until 7 pm each night, there's not a lot of time for driving. She's not quite ready for driving to and from school, which is what our goal is. Once she's able to do that, she'll have plenty of 'practice' time.
Saturday, Hubby and I went to a Jeff Cavin's information day
(for lack of a better description). During one of our discussions about how to help participants in the Great Adventure Bible Study
create time for daily Scripture reading and reflection, the idea of how busy everyone is these days. Another participant said, "Ahh, if you find yourself saying you're too busy for anything that's really important (i.e. spending time in God's Word) than remember what BUSY really stands for: Being Under Satan's Yoke." Wow. "We're too busy to eat together" "I'm too busy to really spend time with my... (child, husband, parents)" "Too busy to meet the neighbors" and on and on. Obviously, it's stuck with me. Being Under Satan's Yoke. I really like that and will hold onto that one. With Lent approaching this Wednesday, it's an idea to remember when thinking of how best to utilize this time of spiritual Boot Camp the Church has wisely set up for us.
On a totally different topic, I read the Yoder and Son column in the Sunday paper. Yesterday, the dad said "Just because you have the money doesn't mean you can afford it." Again, I literally sat there and said "WOW! That's SOO true." For years I've said that parents today (i.e. ME) have a harder time saying no to material requests from the children because we have more disposable income than our parents tended to have. When you have 8 kids like my parents and only 1 employed parent (notice I did not say 'working parent') there simply wasn't any extra money available. So their response to requests were honestly 'we don't have the money' For Hubby and I, we use to say that and then our kids asked if we were poor. So our response became, "We choose to spend our money differently" (You know...give to the Church and other charities, save for retirement, save for emergencies, save for college, etc) How I wish I'd had the gem of "Just cause we have the money doesn't mean we can afford it" these past 19 years.
So all day yesterday I had these two sayings whirling through my head...each prompting many different threads of thought. More on that later.