{"id":1510,"date":"2009-04-14T22:29:23","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T05:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=1510"},"modified":"2009-04-14T22:29:23","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T05:29:23","slug":"keeping-the-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=1510","title":{"rendered":"Keeping the focus"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Focus up.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I say this to the girls at least once a day when I need them to channel their energy into eating, getting dressed, or some other task that they can’t seem to be bothered with at that exact moment.<\/p>\n

But this week, I find that I’m the one who needs to do a little focusing up. I can’t figure out what my problem is. Normally, I am a pretty organized person. I have my task lists, I organize my errands to minimize my “running around,” and my house looks – for the most part – inviting and clean.<\/p>\n

But for the past few days I have been incredibly scatterbrained. I can’t even put together a task list that makes sense. I move stuff from one room to another and then back again. I’ve found two different birthday cards that should have been sent out last week. And I started to write out a check to pay our taxes, went to answer the phone and by the time I came back I had already forgotten what I was doing.<\/p>\n

Grrr. It is frustrating. And Em came home today and was so excited about collecting her jog-a-thon winnings and I remembered that I never even posted to let you all know how she did!<\/p>\n

MOM! You didn’t even blog about how amazing your little runner did?<\/p>\n

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Uh…nope. Let’s discuss now, shall we? Here she was before the race…<\/p>\n

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Flash! During the race…<\/p>\n

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And after…<\/p>\n

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I roped all of our visitors into “volunteering” for the PTA as well. I was marking the runners as they did their laps. Meesh was taking photos (Thanks, M!), Lexer was on the water station…<\/p>\n

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And the three little ones were on cheerleading duty…<\/p>\n

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So how did she do, you ask?<\/p>\n

Well, when we were fundraising we were told that the track was 1\/8th of a mile. So she and I thought that she might try to run 10 laps – so that would be over a mile! And they had 20 minutes to run. I figured that was pretty do-able.<\/p>\n

And the girl is good. She got pledges from both Nana AND Papa, Nena AND Bill and then she hit me up, and also got a separate pledge from Daddy. And also sweet talked both Daddy and Uncle Jeff each into $5 a lap.<\/p>\n

You see where this is going, right?<\/p>\n

Yeah. She ran 20 laps! She made some c-a-s-h for her school. But it is all for a good cause. The fearsome foursome…<\/p>\n

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Good work, girls. And I’m so glad one of us is able to focus up and overachieve around here lately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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