Slump

From Dr. Seuss:

Wherever you fly, you'll be the best of the best.
Wherever you go, you will top all the rest.

Except when you don't.
Because, sometimes, you won't.

I'm sorry to say so
but, sadly, it's true
that Bang-ups
and Hang-ups
can happen to you.

You can get all hung up in a prickle-ly perch.
And your gang will fly on.
You'll be left in a Lurch.

You'll come down from the Lurch
with an unpleasant bump.
And the chances are, then,
that you'll be in a Slump.

And when you're in a Slump, 
you're not in for much fun.
Un-slumping yourself is not easily done.

For the last couple of weeks I have been in a Slump. Nutcracker is over, Gifts of the Heart is over, my mom is sick and I am most assuredly in a Slump. Sleeping in, wasting time on Facebook, reading brain candy books, letting the laundry pile up, staying up late watching shows, saying "sorry I can't do that" too often. Not award-winning behavior, especially for a homeschooling mother. :)

As I was thinking about my Slump today I decided there are a couple of reasons why I'm here. One is simply that I don't have any looming big projects, and I am recovering from my most recent projects. The other is the news about my mom.

I think I am trying to keep myself from thinking. Because if I sit and think about what could happen I start to get all weepy, and I hate being weepy. It's so much easier to not have to use my brain at all, and goodness knows there are plenty of things waiting to waste away my time!

NO! 
That's not for you!

Somehow you'll escape 
all that waiting and staying.
You'll find the bright places
where Boom Bands are playing.

On and on you will hike.
And I know you'll hike far
and face up to your problems
whatever they are.

This week my goal is to do that: to face up to my problems, whatever they are. To give myself permission to think about the worst-case scenario and accept that it might happen. To pull myself out of this Slump and start accomplishing things again. To look beyond myself and see what those around me need.

So...be your name Buxbaum or Bixby or Bray 
or Mordecai Ali Van Allen O'Shea,
you're off to Great Places! Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting.
So...get on your way!