This CV was a challenge. Early is not a big part of my vocabulary. Very little in my life has happened early. And I am almost never early for anything! More so I feel like I am always waiting for things to happen...sometimes it is hard to trust that everything is happening at the right time, isn't it?
So this CV led me to thinking about the concept of timing in general.
Remember my "
the best things that ever happened to me in my life were never planned realization?"
Well here I am, at the beginning of a three month life adventure, first time I have ever done anything like this, even when I was single...I always did everything as expected and at the right time -- school, then college, then grad school (cuz I couldn't get a job right out of college), then job, then marriage, then children...
But now we have "interrupted" our normal life to take the kids on an adventure. We had this idea to spend the fall in LA, to "see what LA has to offer us, and immerse ourselves in the creativity of the city." Right after Gary and I talked about considering this, the details fell into place perfectly. Several factors lined up within a two week period of time to allow us to be here, including finding renters for our home, finding places to rent here, one was available for one month, the other, to the day, for the next two months.
So far we have been in the city of angels two days and all of the kids are immediately jumping into their music, both girls wrote songs the first day, we have already found really cool classes for the two youngest to take during August before school starts, sports camps and an etiquette class that don't exist where we live, and the girls' acting coach is literally right down the street. Sky's producer is here too. Cool.
In addition, it's a little challenging because after all of the traveling we have done and stayed healthy during, now our little Annabel is sick and we are in this house where we don't really know where we are. Plus Annabel isn't feeling well enough for acting classes, so there is no need to call the coach yet. I feel like things are on hold. In fact I haven't left the house yet except for to take one walk. We were going to take the kids to a park today, hopefully Gary will have time to do it on his own. I will stay behind and nurse my little songbird back to health. At least I have a fridge full of food to cook for the family! And a garden to take care of.
I am also worried about the girls' education. Both of them have gotten into our charter school back home I found out this summer, the school with the huuge wait list. I am trying to contact them to see how we can keep them up to par til we get home. When I talked to them last year about the likelihood of us traveling, they were surprisingly supportive of making it work. But if course I wonder...what if we are too late? Home schooling has worked for us in the past, but little Annabel really wants to go to school this year. Parenting, always a balancing act!
Do you ever look back on your life and all of the "synchronicites" that happen and wonder,
what if I had been too late? Or too early? My personal current favorite:
What if the timing was perfect even though it didn't seem so at the time?
Timing does make a big difference in everything that happens in our lives.
And we are here for now, so we are going to make the best of it!!
This is the house we are renting for the month
