{"id":3014,"date":"2010-03-18T08:31:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T13:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/?p=3014"},"modified":"2025-04-30T13:14:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T17:14:48","slug":"its-all-a-blur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/18\/its-all-a-blur\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s all a blur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night when we were at the park with the kiddos, my friend Lynne said she was spending most days &#8220;watching the clock&#8221;.\u00a0 That is how I feel.\u00a0 My older boys both do guitar, and bot do LAX.\u00a0 Which really isn&#8217;t that much, until you factor in the 2-3 practices a week (each) for LAX, once a week for guitar.\u00a0 Games haven&#8217;t started yet, so weekends are still good.<\/p>\n<p>Cole&#8217;s schedule is probably the craziest.\u00a0 Half day K is 2 1\/2 hours.\u00a0 So it seems that he is only there 30 minutes.\u00a0 He does rec center classes three days a week.\u00a0 Art, swimming, gym.\u00a0 Otherwise he gets so bored.<\/p>\n<p>I have so many good intentions to scrapbook, good ideas pop into my head, plus I love watching the boys look at their books.\u00a0 I am hoping that I get enough down on my blog so that I can go back and reference when I actually find the time to sit down and do something.<\/p>\n<p>I want to remember Austin and Matt&#8217;s conversation about pole jumping on the way to LAX practice, I want to remember Eva getting freaked out over MB&#8217;s doll, I want to remember Cole learning to rollerblade and holding Lynne&#8217;s hand up the middle of our street.<\/p>\n<p>I want to remember that although our days are crazy, I am loving every minute.\u00a0 Ok well not every minute.<\/p>\n<p>These minutes<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Original\" title=\"IMG_6188\" href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/4442431541\/img_6188.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2759\/4442431541_7a6ec23eb6_o.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6188\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a> Because this boy is crazy.\u00a0 Yesterday he told me that he wanted a new mom, a nicer one.\u00a0 Because I told him he had to come home with me after his rec center class, not go with a friend.\u00a0 By this point in the day he had gone to K, had a friend over, gone to rec, and now it was time to go home and get Blake to guitar, then Austin to LAX.\u00a0 He was mad.\u00a0 He wanted a nicer mom.\u00a0 I told him good luck with that.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Original\" title=\"IMG_6165\" href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/4443208244\/img_6165.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4056\/4443208244_eb14bb5be8_o.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6165\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a> He changed his mind later in the evening, when I took him rollerblading again.\u00a0 And man was it helpful to have an extra pair of hands- thanks Lynne!<\/p>\n<p>The park was hopping.\u00a0 They replaced our whole playground down by the river over the winter.\u00a0 Now they have all kinds of stuff, even swings for Eva.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t get back home to make dinner until 7:30.\u00a0 Which is fine when your husband doesn&#8217;t get home until 8.\u00a0 See there are some benefits.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Original\" title=\"IMG_6166\" href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/4443208352\/img_6166.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4053\/4443208352_97bcd483e2_o.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6166\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a> There was wrestle mania on the floor.\u00a0 The girly jumps right in<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Original\" title=\"IMG_6167\" href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/4442430891\/img_6167.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2721\/4442430891_f1f74b52ef_o.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6167\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Original\" title=\"IMG_6169\" href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/4442430999\/img_6169.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2804\/4442430999_f9fb17298c_o.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6169\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Original\" title=\"IMG_6170\" href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/4443208714\/img_6170.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4069\/4443208714_36d7d61e82_o.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6170\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a> Poor Blake<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Original\" title=\"IMG_6171\" href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/4443208820\/img_6171.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4063\/4443208820_988fddb37b_o.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6171\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Original\" title=\"IMG_6179\" href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/4442431289\/img_6179.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2700\/4442431289_b75f96bf99_o.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6179\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Original\" title=\"IMG_6183\" href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/4443209026\/img_6183.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2696\/4443209026_f84e68794d_o.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6183\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Original\" title=\"IMG_6194\" href=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/photos\/photo\/4442431667\/img_6194.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2737\/4442431667_2c07a76f61_o.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6194\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night when we were at the park with the kiddos, my friend Lynne said she was spending most days &#8220;watching the clock&#8221;.\u00a0 That is how I feel.\u00a0 My older boys both do guitar, and bot do LAX.\u00a0 Which really isn&#8217;t that much, until you factor in the 2-3 practices a week (each) for LAX, once a week for guitar.\u00a0 Games haven&#8217;t started yet, so weekends are still good. Cole&#8217;s schedule is probably the craziest.\u00a0 Half day K is 2 1\/2 hours.\u00a0 So it seems that he is only there 30 minutes.\u00a0 He does rec center classes three days a week.\u00a0 Art, swimming, gym.\u00a0 Otherwise he gets so bored. I have so many good intentions to scrapbook, good ideas pop into my head, plus I love watching the boys look at their books.\u00a0 I am hoping that I get enough down on my blog so that I can go back and reference when I actually find the time to sit down and do something. I want to remember Austin and Matt&#8217;s conversation about pole jumping on the way to LAX practice, I want to remember Eva getting freaked out over MB&#8217;s doll, I want to remember Cole learning to rollerblade and holding Lynne&#8217;s hand up the middle of our street. I want to remember that although our days are crazy, I am loving every minute.\u00a0 Ok well not every minute. These minutes Because this boy is crazy.\u00a0 Yesterday he told me that he wanted a new mom, a nicer one.\u00a0 Because I told him he had to come home with me after his rec center class, not go with a friend.\u00a0 By this point in the day he had gone to K, had a friend over, gone to rec, and now it was time to go home and get Blake to guitar, then Austin to LAX.\u00a0 He was mad.\u00a0 He wanted a nicer mom.\u00a0 I told him good luck with that. He changed his mind later in the evening, when I took him rollerblading again.\u00a0 And man was it helpful to have an extra pair of hands- thanks Lynne! The park was hopping.\u00a0 They replaced our whole playground down by the river over the winter.\u00a0 Now they have all kinds of stuff, even swings for Eva. I didn&#8217;t get back home to make dinner until 7:30.\u00a0 Which is fine when your husband doesn&#8217;t get home until 8.\u00a0 See there are some benefits. There was wrestle mania on the floor.\u00a0 The girly jumps right in Poor Blake<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"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":[3,8],"tags":[807,105,163,229],"class_list":["post-3014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3","category-family","tag-807","tag-blake","tag-cole","tag-eva"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014","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=3014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21314,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014\/revisions\/21314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}