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This week has been extremely busy, with lots of pivot moments and choices between what I was planning to do and what I felt like I needed to do. For instance, we were supposed to travel to Tennessee for several days and get home just in time for a campout at the coast. The travel plans were cancelled, but soon were replaced with other spur of the moment decisions that kept me from making the progress I wanted on the song book. Our hot tub went on the fritz, my oldest daughter got sick, I found out one of the songs I licensed was the wrong song (same title, different author), and I realized I didn’t have source music for a couple of songs that I was going to create sheet music from scratch. So this morning, I was faced with another choice between getting caught up on my pace for “Cherished Hymns” or go out on our Saturday tandem ride.

I felt bad about not joining Ray on our planned Saturday ride, but I knew I would feel worse if I didn’t just slow everything down enough to take care of the things that were weighing on my mind for this week. He went on his ride, and I ended up feeling much more accomplished by the time he got home. I’m glad for the choice I made after all, because we had afternoon plans to go visit some friends and I was able to shut down for a few hours without feeling totally stressed about having too much to do upon our return. Now the evening has just begun, and I have a little more work to do on the song book before turning my attention to dinner preparations and planning for my oldest son’s birthday lunch for tomorrow afternoon.

Earlier this week, I was visiting with my oldest daughter about decisions and defining focus to what is manageable while raising two young children, being a good wife, working part time, going to school to finish her bachelor’s degree, keeping up their home, and continuing her passion for running several times a week with the Eugene, Oregon group, 5AM Running Madness. I know this is something all of us have to do, and sometimes we have to make choices that make us feel bad in one way or another. Nobody gets a rule book on which choice to make for each and every thing that comes along, but hopefully we are tuned-in enough to realize when we need to slow down or review and adjust in the process.

Today I chose to miss out on some things, but it helped me be more present for the things I chose to do, and I can feel good about that in the long run.