{"id":12364,"date":"2015-05-28T02:03:56","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T02:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/?p=12364"},"modified":"2020-08-21T08:06:50","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T12:06:50","slug":"an-ordinary-weekday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/28\/an-ordinary-weekday-night\/","title":{"rendered":"An ordinary weekday night"},"content":{"rendered":"

We used to take lots of trips down the street to the river<\/p>\n

\"Q14A5560\"<\/p>\n

These days I feel we are so consumed with getting our house back together<\/p>\n

\"Q14A5561\"<\/p>\n

I tried to explain to someone the other day about how once you get done with your house there is still a weird time when you are numb and you just don’t want to unpack or think about your house.<\/p>\n

\"Q14A5565\"<\/p>\n

That’s kinda where I am right now. I am waiting for it to pass<\/p>\n

\"Q14A5575\"\"Q14A5579\"\"Q14A5585\"<\/p>\n

I know it will. Just giving myself time.<\/p>\n

\"Q14A5593\"\"Q14A5599\"<\/p>\n

I look at the boxes that I have packed and unpacked 5 times over the last three years and I just can’t do it right now. I will wear the same thing over and over.<\/p>\n

\"Q14A5607\"\"Q14A5612\"<\/p>\n

And now we round out the end of yet another school year I have been thinking a lot about the days to come.<\/p>\n

\"Q14A5616\"<\/p>\n

This Spring was crazy town with my 3 boys and their sports. Especially the older two. It wasn’t all that enjoyable.<\/p>\n

\"Q14A5639\"<\/p>\n

I am craving a slower paced life. I hated the non-stop every night we had this Spring.<\/p>\n

\"Q14A5644\"<\/p>\n

I can tell you first hand that the years with my kiddos have flown<\/p>\n

\"Q14A5640\"\"Q14A5646\"<\/p>\n

If I could let my olders graduate from their comfort school I would totally pick up my youngers that love traveling and meeting new people and settle on some east coast beach island.<\/p>\n

\"Q14A5651\"\"Q14A5655\"<\/p>\n

I think of slower days, that are not consumed by non-stop academics and sports. Especially sports. Because heres the thing- how many people that you know went on to be pro athletes? Yeah not many.<\/p>\n

\"Q14A5661\"\"Q14A5666\"<\/p>\n

So as I shuffle down the line of 4 kids and realize how much time we spent doing things that really didn’t matter much in the long run… well I am rethinking things for the last two.<\/p>\n

\"Q14A5697\"\"Q14A5702\"\"Q14A5706\"\"Q14A5708\"\"Q14A5711\"
\nCan we all just revisit for a minute what is important?<\/p>\n

\"Q14A5729\"<\/p>\n

Because this is time you don’t get back<\/p>\n

\"Q14A5749\"\"Q14A5773\"<\/p>\n

So I am hear to tell you that it is ok if your kid isn’t playing every sport. Sports are great for teaching them how to be a team player, and of course to exercise their body. But after almost 18 years of being in the throw of it I am ready to back off a bit. It’s ok to have kids with more interests than sports. And at the end of the day it makes for a better paced life.<\/p>\n

\"Q14A5803\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We used to take lots of trips down the street to the river These days I feel we are so consumed with getting our house back together I tried to explain to someone the other day about how once you get done with your house there is still a weird time when you are numb and you just don’t want to unpack or think about your house. That’s kinda where I am right now. I am waiting for it to pass I know it will. Just giving myself time. I look at the boxes that I have packed and unpacked 5 times over the last three years and I just can’t do it right now. I will wear the same thing over and over. And now we round out the end of yet another school year I have been thinking a lot about the days to come. This Spring was crazy town with my 3 boys and their sports. Especially the older two. It wasn’t all that enjoyable. I am craving a slower paced life. I hated the non-stop every night we had this Spring. I can tell you first hand that the years with my kiddos have flown If I could let my olders graduate from their comfort school I would totally pick up my youngers that love traveling and meeting new people and settle on some east coast beach island. I think of slower days, that are not consumed by non-stop academics and sports. Especially sports. Because heres the thing- how many people that you know went on to be pro athletes? Yeah not many. So as I shuffle down the line of 4 kids and realize how much time we spent doing things that really didn’t matter much in the long run… well I am rethinking things for the last two. Can we all just revisit for a minute what is important? Because this is time you don’t get back So I am hear to tell you that it is ok if your kid isn’t playing every sport. Sports are great for teaching them how to be a team player, and of course to exercise their body. But after almost 18 years of being in the throw of it I am ready to back off a bit. It’s ok to have kids with more interests than sports. And at the end of the day it makes for a better paced life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Q14A5559.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12364"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17477,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12364\/revisions\/17477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}