Yup, it’s me; all cool-like and laid-back
Ok so I’m starting to lose it. School days are done and summer is upon us and I’ve got three weeks of swim team and jump practice to coordinate before packing up the car and turning our (station) wagon west east not to mention figuring out hotel stops and food and oh yeah, I’m losing it.
Have no fear. I’m working on a new me. You can tell I’m all new by the mellow look in my eye and the way I saunter to and fro with nary a care in the world. I’m laid back. I’m cool. I don’t need a petty calendar to tell me where I’m supposed to be and who I’m supposed to be picking up when. If I forget a kid I’m sure she’ll call (note to old self — write cell number inside kids’ shirts.)
With such a blase attitude towards juggling life and kids, you can imagine that the disorder of my garden isn’t ruffling any of my feathers. Oh no. I am hip and if the squash wants to wind itself around the tomatoes and the potatoes are fraternizing with the cucumbers, I don’t mind. Who am I to enforce something as dull as tidy rows of planned vegetables?
Sure I spent hours toiling away beneath a punishing sun, lining up seedlings and painstakingly pulling weeds, but all that’s behind me now. After all, the roly polies have settled into the neatly groomed spots vacated by the vegetables-to-be and they seem quite happy. And you know what they say–when a gal’s got happy bugs…well, I imagine they have something to say about that.
Ok. Ok. You got me. I like my garden in rows. And I like my days planned. But I’m facing a mutiny in the garden and a couple of weeks before setting out on the open road and so I am embracing a new attitude. I’m throwing caution to the wind and trying out days without a plan. (If my hands are shaking and I seem a little hyper-ventalatey that probably just means I need more coffee, right?)
I can do this. After all, I learned my lesson last summer and I am more than ready to toss out the crazy and embrace the lazy in these my dog days of summer. So here I go.
I’m putting down the calendar.
I’m breathing in.
I’m breathing out.
Look at me! I’m so totally relaxing.
(Ok, can I have my calendar back now?)
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Alas, I am afraid the genes are conspiring against you…but if you find a way to reverse that DNA stuff, I want whatever you’ll be taking
Jason hid the TV remote yesterday and I am about to go beserk without my “safety valve”! Ethan, however, has read over 4 hours in two days. And, then swim practice is cancelled? Bring on the chocolate!
I’m with you Daphne!! I so want the laid back life but have to have a calendar. Help me find the balance of freedom and control! Hopefully I can do a little of that while we are here in CA. Will call when we get back. Loved hangin’ out last week.
I love a calendar too. Hang in there.
wadda ya mean, I don’t even know where my calendar is, aren’t that what friends like you are for : )
ok friend, this is a familiar theme, a much-admired non-plan, and I’m hoping the same for myself, all but for the four plane trips the punctuate my 8 weeks off.
My new mantra: toss out the crazy, embrace the lazy!
Any time for yoga on this trip? Great post!
This is l;ife, and it gets more and more crazy. Have a grteat trip, and the plants will sort themselves out. Perhaps a plant sitter can save what will be wasted, perhaps. But do come, our garden looks like a jungle.
Can’t wait to see you! If you forgot what I look like I will we the girl with a great big calender in my hands because I cannot function without it!
Sounds to me like you have everything under control. Everything will turn out great.