{"id":19487,"date":"2017-10-05T23:06:44","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T06:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adoptedjoy.com\/?p=19487"},"modified":"2017-10-05T23:09:03","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T06:09:03","slug":"busy-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/?p=19487","title":{"rendered":"Busy Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are in a busy season right now – the tilt-a-whirl is spinning madly and we’re just hanging on for dear life!<\/p>\n

The number of appointments – between therapy\/doctors\/behavioral coaches\/specialists\/evaluations\/educational teams\/caseworkers\/case managers\/legal advisers – and the list goes on – seems impossibly to be growing week by week. Here’s a sample of how I’m trying (and failing just a little) to stay sane – :<\/p>\n

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Things are going to be very hectic for the next couple of months, and my mission is to balance my need, in the midst of a chaotic non-stop schedule, to self medicate with late-night (or anytime I can sit for a few minutes) meditative\/prayerful coloring, with my need to be as fully present and attuned to the needs of my kiddos as possible. NO easy task. I keep thinking “I need to go to the ranch!” followed immediately by “Ain’t nobody got time for dat!”<\/p>\n

But fortunately there’s this that keeps me grounded and in the moment:<\/p>\n

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Also, I know it will help my mental clarity if I can just clean this up:<\/p>\n

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I kind of have to – quarterly inspection comes next week and this is just ridiculous. Plus, Ruben keeps grabbing my Sharpies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are in a busy season right now – the tilt-a-whirl is spinning madly and we’re just hanging on for dear life! The number of appointments – between therapy\/doctors\/behavioral coaches\/specialists\/evaluations\/educational teams\/caseworkers\/case managers\/legal advisers – and the list goes on – seems impossibly to be growing week by week. Here’s a sample of how I’m trying […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[628,3,296,40,211],"tags":[658,152,426,653,508],"class_list":["post-19487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adopted-joy","category-family","category-fostering","category-house","category-organizing","tag-appointments","tag-family-3","tag-foster-care","tag-life","tag-schedules","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19487"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19575,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19487\/revisions\/19575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}