Keeping Pace With June!

Oh goodness!  It's never a good idea to try and stay ahead of the calendar because the days and weeks will always, always out run me!  I cannot believe it is almost June.  I think I wrote one blog all of last month.  How sad is that?  And why the blog today?  Well, I was watching the movie "Julia & Julie" about the gal who cooked and blogged her way through Julia Child's cookbook.  I'm not a big fan of cooking myself so the only reason I began watching it was because it was on cable and I had a headache.  In otherwords, it was something to watch while I lazed about on the couch.  Anyway, it wasn't the cooking that inspired me but rather Julie's accountability to her blogging.  It made me think about the poor lonely state of my own blog.  I started with such good intentions but have found the mind-numbing pull of Spider Solitaire more appealing than writing.  Writing requires brain power and my brain is currently tired.  Yes, tired.  I cannot believe how much brain power has been involved lately in keeping up with life's schedule and June is not going to be any easier.  EVERYTHING wraps up in June.  Dance rehearsals and recitals, multiple school events, field trips, graduations, church scouting programs and added to our family's schedule ... a birthday, anniversary and the first camping trip of the season.  It all happens in June!  I was really hoping to manage a race in June but there simply isn't a place for it on the schedule.  Last June we did the Flight for Sight race in Everett which raises money for guide dogs.  It was a great race and  I actually got 1st place in my Age Group and won a medal.  And yes, I would have thought it was a fun race even without the medal.  All participants received ribbons, guide dog pins, shirts, and they even had photos taken and available online for purchase - just like in larger races.  I would love to try for a placing again this year but my daughter is having her Stars sleepover that weekend.  Since I am helping with that group this year I will be coming off a long night of lots of giggles, squeals and little sleep.  When the gun starts the race I will be in the church kitchen pouring pancake batter.  Oh, the sacrifices we make as parents.  I guess I will consider it an opportunity to pay my daughter back for all the Saturday mornings she woke up earlier than she wanted, to be dragged off to her aunt and uncle's house, while mom and dad went to the trail to train.  Besides, there will be plenty of races in my future but only a couple more years of giggly 9-12 year old Stars sleepovers.  So June ... I may not be able to outrun you and all your commitments but I am prepared to keep pace and finish with my head held high!  Bring it on!