Why are the easy things so hard?

Seems like the same thing happens to me everytime I watch conference, I wonder... why are the easy things so hard? Its funny how we find ourselves all of a sudden so far from the Spirit, and we wonder how did we get here? I know how saying my prayers and reading my scriptures makes me feel, but yet why are they so hard to do? I am trapped in the same familiar place that I get into it seems everytime I am happy and dont "need" anything from the Lord. I neglect to say my prayers as much and do the easy and it seems my prayers get more and more lacking, saying them in the car, or in the shower, and yes sometimes even on the pot. So now I am back to that point where I ask myself why am I being so ignorant, why do I think I dont need the things that the church has to offer me, I have my wonderful husband and my sweet baby, and it hit me yesterday that I need those things even more now. It is definately harder for me now than it was when I am single to do the easy things and it is just a reminder to me that we always have to be striving to be close to the Spirit especially when things are going well and we dont "need" anything or we will find ourselves one day sitting on the couch watching conference and wondering how did I get so far away? So now I am going to strive to do everything I can to turn this way that I am feeling around and I am doing it especially because it's going to be hard.