September! You are not my favorite.
October please hurry!
The ninth month is just too hyper, it wants to be everything and hold everything. It's greedy that way. But...it did give me two of the four loveliest gifts of my life so I have to forgive it a little for being so pushy.
I peaked about a month ago with my trying to run but mostly walking fast. I got sick at the beginning of the month. Oh, thank you September I needed that in no way! That little setback slowed me down tremendously. Since then I am better but have lost a bit of my motivation. I am super worried too because I know me and cold weather. I like the cold weather if I can mostly be indoors with it, experience it in short intervals. Definitely not any interval long enough to give me a cold ear headache. I'm a wimp, one who should look into wearing ear wraps I guess. I'm feeling really good though overall. The exercise, and diet modifications I have been faithful to since January, are paying off.
Eva is playing soccer for the first time, her first sport actually. Wyatt is playing baseball and soccer. Emily and Sarah are both playing volleyball for their schools. The most joy I can find is when I seat myself at one of their games. They are getting into the swing of things with school now, though they still grieve for summer every Monday morning.
September isn't really so bad. We're heading into a more manageable time. I need more manageable because my babies aren't babies anymore, and I'll admit that sometimes do, but I really don't want to wish it away or dream it's over.
I had problems with my camera on the first day of school and ended up with lots of blurry photos, only two or three that I could keep. I was in manual mode and thought I was in auto focus but couldn't tell at the time because I didn't have my glasses on! Oh well, first day of school photos are overrated right? I had to tell myself that, and to stay out of auto focus mode personally speaking, so I don't continue to take so much of this life for granted.
I think October is going to help me be better at that.
