Focus...Focus!

It's been a little hectic in our house, since I decided to walk again. I'm grateful that this year I am not walking alone, but I must admit I forgot that it was a lot of work last time, and since we need to raise more money this year for the three of us, we need to do more work. Pia has been pretty excited about it, but she did not hide her feelings about how disappointed she was that we were not baking 100 cupcakes on a Sunday night before school for a fundraising event that we still hadn't even scheduled.

I've been up pretty late this week organizing all the 'pink' stuff in my office in order of priority of what I need to be working on now versus later. Pia has been great this whole week suffering my OCD while simultaneously sitting beside me doing her homework. She would just look at me and say, "Mom? Can you help me with this one?", and I would, but then get easily side-tracked. Adam likes to say I'm chasing butterflies, but in truth, you know how it is, a million things racing through your head that you have to get done before you go to bed or you will just lay there thinking about how you should get up and go and do it anyway.

In any case, I've been spending more time with her and her homework (more than last semester while I was working on my own) and oddly enough, she isn't nearly complaining as much as she used to. I think she actually likes just sitting in there with me, just watching me get stuff done and spending time focusing on her and how smart she is (when she applies herself :)). It's been a couple Thursdays now that Adam hasn't been home because he's taking a class, and it's just her and I all evening and she loves that we just hang out and eat whatever we decided on the spot, together. We haven't had that for awhile, usually because she's a daddy's girl, so it's a nice change-up for the both of us.

She told me the other night that she is proud of me for going to college, while I was writing my last blog, thinking it was my homework. I told her that I was finished with college. She was astounded and wanted to know about graduation; how did she miss it?! I explained to her that it was a ceremony that still hadn't taken place, but I was having a problem bridging that communication gap, so I decided to show her images and she understood immediately. She proceeded to tell me that she can't wait for her graduation to jr high, high school, and college. I couldn't have been more proud of HER.