I can’t deny that this last week has been very full of action. All of it was good but I was super tired by Friday night. It felt good to sleep late today and then to get outside for a decent length of time. You will NEVER believe that I JUST took my Christmas tree down! It is interesting how life ebbs and flows, activities up and down. I was at one point really wrapped up in my job, then my baby, then my job, now my almost teenager and volunteering many places. I have only a few more years of teenagerness left in my house. I know that they will go so fast! We are having fun, learning, occasionally struggling, parenting, volunteering for everything good we can fit into our lives. I am having fun in most places in my life. While I am sometimes completely tired out, it is usually for a great cause – family, friends, people in need of something I can do. I am also enjoying my whole fitness, outdoorsy life. There are few things I wish for at this moment in life.
I am struggling more than usual to get all things organized. I am also thinking of ways to reorganized my commitments so that I might be less busy – less over committed! I really struggle to choose what to drop. What would be better would be to find a way to share some of my duties more. I am hoping to delegate more duties to other parents for 4H. This is my third year as Community Leader. Mostly it is pretty awesome but my tendency to procrastinate lends itself to occasional bouts of complete chaos and frenzy. I know that I also procrastinate the tasks that I don’t enjoy as much which leaves some things unfinished or scattered. I don’t know if I will ever succeed in changing that – especially since I don’t really try to hard to change it! Oh, well!
I think some of my busy is just parenting a very active junior high student. I believe that it is good for him to be active at school and in extra curricular activities… he certainly has very little time to get in trouble. I think as he gets older he will select out of some of his activities and focus in on his favorites. Marcus is a great parenting partner, we split up some of the running around duties and pick up duties. Although I love watching Marek and the kids that I have watched grow play sports and do activities, I must add that three hours of basketball games twice a week is a bit excessive to me! I’m not really sure that it is great that we live in a society where our kids spend 12 hours a week on one sport. We get home at 6 practice nights and somewhere around 8 on game nights. Thank goodness we have study hall built into the school day. I’d like to see Marek spend 12 hours a week on his music. He is good and very motivated to play. He works hard to fit all of his interests into his life.
I Must also admit that I spend a good amount of time on myself these days. Marek is old enough to be left alone or at sports practice every day so I have some time to go OUTSIDE! This is good! It is probably my most effective coping strategy. My knee is not full speed yet. While I can hike and wog it is tender and susceptible to pain if I twist wrong. I have a follow up doctor appointment next week. I am wondering if I should push the cortisone shot idea. ugh… I have had a couple of visits to the Chiropractor. Can’t decide if the last visit even made a difference. I am hoping to schedule my SPA day soon! Maybe a sports massage will help me out. I am grateful to have such awesome friends in Matt and Alicia because they are gifting geniuses! The good news is that the Black Cohosh has really helped out with the ridiculous hot flashes!! This makes peri-menopause SO much more manageable!
Well, that is the short story of these days I guess. Overall, things are going pretty well. I’m healthy, Marcus and Marek are healthy and we are all living a full and fun life for now. We are so very blessed. It’s pretty amazing and I am thankful each day for all of the joy, fun, love and quality time with people I love. I hope you are finding yourself with a life full of the things you enjoy. Be thankful for the small moments and go OUTSIDE whenever you can.
~ Denise
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