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April 26, 2007· Filed under Family, Reflections, Working from Home
Normally I thrive on activity and the daily pace of life, but lately something seems out of balance and I can’t quite put my finger on it.
I think the problem is that I enjoy too many things in life. I love working from home and doing web design, blogging, and new media consulting. I love being involved in my kids’ activities. I love coaching gymnastics. I love being able to take time away from it all with my husband. I love taking walks or grabbing a cup of coffee with my closest gal-pals.
But then there are the things I have to do like laundry, cooking, cleaning, and maintaining a household. Things like grocery shopping, paperwork, filing, and such just don’t inspire me.
Some days I think that if I just had a few more hours in every day I could pull it all off, and then I realize, that won’t work either - it still wouldn’t all get done.
Over the next few weeks I have got some serious soul searching and priority setting to do. It is not going to be fun. Summer is right around the corner and if I don’t get a handle on it all soon, my kids are not going to enjoy summer one bit - and that isn’t fair.
Dear readers - I’d like to get your input on maintaining the balance! How do you allocate your daily hours between work, family and fun? How do you pull yourself back on center and reevaluate priorities from a point of sanity? How do you decide what has to give?
April 17, 2007· Filed under Reflections
To all the students, faculty, parents and community members of Virginia Tech, my thoughts and prayers are with you all. There are no words that will we can say that will reduce the pain and shock you all are feeling.
My first visit to the very quiet, rural campus of Virginia Tech took place in 1985. I had gone there for a high school math contest (yes, I was a geek). I remember making comments about how we were going out in to the country and how things were so different from our hustle, bustle suburban Northern Virginia lifestyle. When considering my college options, VT was just too country for me. I opted for University of Texas at Austin instead - ironically, the site of another shocking school murder in 1966. After a year at UT, I chose to come back and finish my college education at George Mason University.
My brothers both chose Virginia Tech for their college experiences and enjoyed every minute of it! While they were there, I took plenty of weekend trips out to Blacksburg to visit them. It is just such a comfortable college environment.
Due to the school’s location, academic excellence and great atmosphere for that first step into the real world, many high school students from our area choose to go on to VT. I can envision at least one of my own children attending VT, too. Even though we are at least four hours away from the campus, everyone in our community is being touched by this incident. We all seem to have some connection to the school, know someone there or know someone who went there.
You never think it can happen to you or to your community. We all like to feel insulated from it all in some way. I hope that the Virginia Tech community can rally around itself much like other communities have in the face of tragedy and let the healing begin.
March 29, 2007· Filed under Girl Stuff, Reflections
Thanks to Hsien for sharing this fun activity with me. The widget below is my visual DNA, you know, my personality in pictures.
What is yours? Go get it at Imagini.net.
March 25, 2007· Filed under Blogging, Reflections
Alex Shalman of Practical Personal Development is teaming up with Aaron Potts of Today is That DaySimply Successful Secrets (remember my post) to find out what makes us tick - what our goals and dreams are - and to help us all discover the inner spark for success at the same time. What does that all mean? It means a new meme on Goal Setting!
Alex tagged me personally, so of course, I must help get this thing off the ground. And, goal setting is a really good exercise that should be done regularly. Alex asked for 5-10 of my wildest dreams. Hmmm… Let’s see.
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March 20, 2007· Filed under Family, Parenting, Reflections
I knew I was tempting fate when we decided to have a third child. Afterall, boy #1 was (and continues to be) as mellow as can be. Girl #2, is slightly more high-maintenance, but has a high tolerance for pain, blood, guts and dirt. Enter girl #3 - a bonafide drama queen!
Miss N was the perfect baby. She was quiet. She slept a lot. And she could entertain herself very well. Those days are long gone! As a five year old, who is preparing to start kindergarten in the fall, Miss N is testing my every last resolve as a Mom - on a daily basis.
Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely adore my little princess. She is the one who loves to snuggle, draws me creative pictures, and is always singing a sweet tune.
However, I was not prepared for the book throwing incident at school last week. You know the one where she decides she is not going to share and hurls the book across the classroom then screams at everyone in the classroom?
How about the incident in the doctor’s office this morning, where she screamed at the nurse taking her “finger blood”? That was the longest 90 minutes of my life. She was so stressed about this appointment and literally had to be pinned down to give her the required immunizations.
Luckily, no permanent damage was done. We stopped at Toys ‘r Us and she spent her birthday gift card on the new Barbie Fairytopia movie. She came home, put on her fairy wings, tiara, popped in the movie and all was right again in her little world.
I will really miss her company during the mornings next year, but on the other hand, I have a big party planned for the first day of school.
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