Good Intentions

   So finally after 3 weeks, I remembered that I am supposed to post on Tuesday while it is still actually Tuesday. I always seem to have lots of good intentions, but sometimes those good intentions get sabotaged by distraction. I have had a lot of distraction over the past couple of weeks....
  A benefit concert that I had suggested quickly turned into a six hour outdoor event complete with 5 bands, food vendors, pony rides, bounce houses, door prizes, dance groups, karate demonstrations, and so on. From the time we secured the venue for the "concert" to the time the "event" took place was about 6 weeks. Most events like this are planned out a year in advance....so there was a lot of hustling and scrambling, planning and preparing, communicating and waiting.
  In the middle of all of this, one of my teenagers who had been in a group home for therapeutic services was returned home (insert happy dance here). This meant a bunch of extra appointments, hearings, and meetings to ensure a smooth transition. I also had to plan for 5 out of the 6 kids in our house to return to 4 different schools.
  Sooooo..... I forgot to post. I emailed everyone involved and apologized. When the next week rolled around....I forgot to post......again...and.....I forgot to email everyone....much less apologize.
   My intentions were noble. My distractions were actually for good causes. But I just couldn't keep up with it all. The benefit event was exhausting but fun, and the kids started school yesterday (insert happy dance here). Sometimes life just goes full speed ahead and you wonder where the last few days or weeks went.
   This week my good intentions include....slowing down, catching up on some rest, listening to some music, praying, enjoying the kid's excitement over the first days of the new school year......
   ....oh yeah.....and laundry!