Relishing the Exquisite Moment

June 28, 1991 Friday

I have a recipe for people who feel their lives are too stressful. Add ONE more element of stress (preferably with a ONE week time limit). That's what this week has been like for me.

As if it weren't enough with me working full-time (as a manager) and Steve going to school taking four classes and being scheduled to work full-time-- I decide in the same week to do some "real" cooking rather than convenience cooking AND sign Laura up for an art class.

Of course I forgot about the mandatory sexual harassment workshop when I signed Laura up and paid the $30. I knew about the Public Services Team meeting but I didn't know it was moved from Whitmore (near an hourly drop-in daycare) to Holladay and changed from 8 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. AND I was asked to bring a fresh-fruit dish (for which I had to make an extra trip to the store).

So now instead of one extra stress there's a half dozen. Not to mention no time for laundry or fixing lunches or meals. Plus the girls having to be tended from 7 or 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 at night on two days and noon to nine on one day. The apron I began sewing on my vacation waits patiently to be finished as do a half dozen outfits I cut out to sew the girls in early April.

The plus to all this has been that the little time I HAVE been with my girls we've been outside at parks (we've tried three now), and visiting friends.

This moment seems particularly exquisite. This little park wedged in among the old houses and duplexes near the university is quiet (only us here). The temperature and soft breeze is perfect and I have a crisp view of our majestic peaks framed in the forground by a church steeple and deciduous and evergreen trees. How sublime it would be to come over here casually whenever the fancy struck.

As for the week that is past-- we muddled through as we knew we would. The kitten we found on Monday lost interest in us when we wouldn't let it sleep in the house. Steve and I didn't make our transportation connection Tuesday so Steve had to call in to work and they came and got him. Laura was late for class everyday. SIGH Hopefully the food in the refrigerator won't spoil before I can prepare it (all this weekend!).