Sometimes you just gotta go outside and climb a tree.
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March 12
I’m trying to pause and experience my day more, rather than just trying to survive it. These azaleas helped. I always forget we have them. This year they exploded and demanded our attention. I’m glad they did.
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March 10
We had a really great day that ended with 30 minutes of yuck that kind of tainted it. Got a lot done – cleaned up the house, weeded the garden, went to the Game Haus and played Sorry and Scattergories, got ice cream, went food shopping, and had tacos for dinner in front of the TV while we watched Big Ten wrestling. Then at bedtime there was some snottiness, yelling, and then crying that had to do with messy rooms, peed-on sheets, and a sink clogged with black water with toilet paper crumpled up all around it. I finished the day with regret. Yin and yang, I suppose. I hope for forgiveness.
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March 9
These girls came out of the tunnel after their performance in tears. Their coach yelled at them and told them it was the worst tumbling she’d ever seen. And then they won first place in their division. And THEN they won grand champions of their whole level. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
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March 8
I tried to steal time where I could get it today with marginal success. It might be time for more drastic measures. Whatever they are.
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March 7
Man, was I cranky today. I only spent ten minutes with my feet in the grass, but it might have been the best ten minutes of my day. Gotta try to make tomorrow better.
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March 6
My days kind of slip by before I know what’s happened. Suddenly it’s 10:30pm and I don’t know what I’ve accomplished. I want to do more things I enjoy, but I don’t know what to put aside to make it happen. So we have strawberries on a Wednesday evening.
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March 4
It was a pretty typical day, with the bonus of talking to a friend I don’t talk to enough. I laughed a lot. Maybe too much. And stayed up too late. But it was good.
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March 3
A day off! I know I should have gone to the beach or done some sewing, but instead I sat around. Sue me. But Christina and I did make this Marge bird for her school project. She created the species and here it is in Lego form. Pretty spot on, if I say so myself.
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March 2
Robin’s team got second place (out of five) today!! I am so excited for her and her teammates. This is the best she has ever done in cheer, and between this and their bid to Worlds, I couldn’t be any prouder. Congratulations, Robin!
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March 1
Yet another travel day, this time to Tampa. One more week after this and then we get a break before Worlds. So much traffic! I guess that’s what we get for traveling at 4pm on a Friday.
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February 29
Today I: Prepared and took the kids to school, wrote the tenth page of my novel, worked, picked Christina up from school, later returned to pick Robin up from school, made dinner, did four loads of laundry, including folding and putting it away, and refilled my medicine trays. Today was an easy day because I didn’t also have to take Christina to dance class or drive anyone home from cheer. I don’t mind doing this stuff, but there is a definite lack of time for myself in all of this. I get so excited about and caught up in what my kids are doing that I sign them up for everything and forget that I then have to take them to said activities. I am going to have to be choosier next year and try to remember that my needs count too. Cheer ends in April (they got a bid to the world championships!) and dance in early June, and then we reset. I’m so buried in other people’s schedules that I don’t even know what I’d do for myself with the opportunity. It’d be nice to have that problem for a change.
Year in Photos 