{"id":4945,"date":"2011-02-08T08:40:36","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T13:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/?p=4945"},"modified":"2025-04-30T13:12:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T17:12:22","slug":"slowing-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/08\/slowing-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Slowing Down"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we woke up to very very cold temps. It’s 24 right now. I know some of you have worse.<\/p>\n

In our rushed, get everyone out the door morning I found myself wishing for the slow paced life that comes with having younger kiddos. Don’t get me wrong. I know those days could get long, and some times boring. But I miss the not having to rush here and there. Now it seems like our days are a mix of guitar, basketball, cotillion, friends, and gym every morning for me. It is hard for me to slow down and actually enjoy, well, anything.<\/p>\n

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And that sucks. Because there were days that were slower. When I tried to soak it all up. But now I feel like I am hanging on by my fingernails as it blows by me like a strong wind.<\/p>\n

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I wish I could figure out how to change that. Obviously kids grow, and their lives get busy and so all our lives get busy. But there has to be balance. It shouldn’t have to go by this fast- where each day is a series of tasks that must be completed only to be checked off and then repeated- day after day.<\/p>\n

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I know the weather has almost everything to do with my mood. I long for warm summer days. <\/p>\n

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And dream about the warm days ahead.<\/p>\n

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Today we woke up to very very cold temps. It’s 24 right now. I know some of you have worse. In our rushed, get everyone out the door morning I found myself wishing for the slow paced life that comes with having younger kiddos. Don’t get me wrong. I know those days could get long, and some times boring. But I miss the not having to rush here and there. Now it seems like our days are a mix of guitar, basketball, cotillion, friends, and gym every morning for me. It is hard for me to slow down and actually enjoy, well, anything. And that sucks. Because there were days that were slower. When I tried to soak it all up. But now I feel like I am hanging on by my fingernails as it blows by me like a strong wind. I wish I could figure out how to change that. Obviously kids grow, and their lives get busy and so all our lives get busy. But there has to be balance. It shouldn’t have to go by this fast- where each day is a series of tasks that must be completed only to be checked off and then repeated- day after day. I know the weather has almost everything to do with my mood. I long for warm summer days. And dream about the warm days ahead.<\/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":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4945","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=4945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21052,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4945\/revisions\/21052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}