Laser Focus has always been a trademark of mine. And of
our family. When we commit to something it is 100%. We lean in a lot….to a lot of
things…one important thing at a time.
But
heck I am getting tired of laser focus! Really.
Our laser focus since June has been having Beauty get
prepared and study for the high school exams coming her way in 2 weeks (less than
two weeks now-yikes!!!!!) This is the third time around now too since both boys
went through this process. And god is it hard.(and I am not even the one to has
to increase my general culture by 99% in three months)
So hard to find the discipline to make time for Beauty to
study, on top of normal studies and normal life of course. I feel so sorry for
the kid. She is handling this like a pro though. Part of why we do this is to
see if the child has what it takes to prepare for exam-to see if she can hack
it to meet the requirements of the five years she will be there academically.
And we are doing only half of the prep we did for our
first child as we know that if you over prepare and it sways results too much,
the school may not be a good fit in the end.
But man I am proud of this girl. She certainly deserves her
fish!! (her gift if she studies hardJ)))
Besides her commitment and discipline I am not sure I have ever seen such clear
and clean and beautiful handwriting.
Laser focus for this means that everything comes second especially
this month of Sept. My Mom is coming and starting a new tradition tonight (yup!) “Grammies Night”-where she comes over and
cooks dinner and brings it and we all hang out once a month on a school night. Yahoo!
It is supposed to include a TV show after dinner…but good old laser focus has
to go ruin it and Daddy and Beauty will go study together instead.
So although I believe a ton on laser focus I am feeling
two things lately 1) I am tired of it 2) I have too many things in our lives
that require laser focus.
And today was just a weird day overall. Everyone and
everything is quitting on me lately…I can’t take it anymore. We were all sooo
thrilled that Beauty got the BEST grade 6th teacher ever. Well you
know the story…She is so sweet and nice that she went and got pregnant. Like seriously…can’t
you wait lady? We liked you (not anymore).
Did get an email today though from an angel….someone kind
and sweet and wonderful just out of the blue. That made my day a lot. A TON.
And started my day hand in hand with my man in the sun
for a beautiful walk by the water so that was really nice before a crazy,
chaotic and hectic day
And tonight going to enjoy Grammie meal…how sweet is that
eh?
So I can’t wait until Sept 28 is over and done. But then
comes the three other exams (cause we can’t guarantee she will get into first
place) of course all on Saturdays before the sun rises. Then of course the
dance audition of 3 hrs, then all the open house s for CEGEP for my son for 2 yrs.
from now but here we are early looking.
Life
is a wild ride.
Laser focus is needed if we want to achieve our dreams. And
our kids dreams.
But gosh it takes a lot of energy doesn’t it?
In analyzing my blood pressure today I realized that life
in general gives me high blood pressure. Told a friend and she said “Great
title for a book!”
