Thirteen Balls in the Air

"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir people's blood and probably will not themselves be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work. Remember that your children and grandchildren are going to do things that would stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty."  ---Daniel H. Burnham, 1910

Remember that expression, "I've got too many balls up in the air"?

Some days I feel like I'm keeping the Post-it company in business with all the little reminders and notes I have plastered around. But even as I added yet another "to-do" to my list today, I couldn't help but think, balls are rubber, right?

If I do drop one (or two or three...or more) they'll merely bounce and I can catch them on the rebound (or the bounce after that or the bounce after that.)

The important thing is to live life fully. Do your best. Love deeply. Play fairly. Pray hard.

Dates are just numbers on a calendar. It's the moments that fill our days that really count.

1. July 9th. Our first Open House. Hopefully we'll have several interested buyers.
2. July 9th - 13th. Wendy (my agent) is in Denver this week for ICRS. She'll be pitching Melrose Miracle and just say no! to various editors. Really, I especially covet your prayers during these days, and I know Wendy does as well.
3. July 14th. Mike's birthday! (Is my husband looking young, or what? Honest-to-goodness, I think the man has tapped into the fountain of youth, or something!)
4. July 29th & 30th. Carter and Kendall are staying the weekend with us. We haven't done this in a while so Pops and Nana are looking forward to it! We get to bring them to church with us on that Sunday and that's always fun and adventurous!
5. August 2nd. Nate's tuition payment to SHSU is due. Yowsa! Writing the big checks kind of makes his college career very real!
6. August 6th. Saving Grace goes to press!
7. August 9th - 11th. I'll be in Louisville, Kentucky, for NALC (North American Ladies Conference). Saving Grace will be making its public debut here. Very exciting! But you know me, my knees are already knocking!
8. August 16th. We move Nate into his dorm at SHSU. (Send tissues, please, I'll need them.)
9. August 21st. Nate's first ever day of college classes. Jordan also starts his senior year at Rockwall today. I'm so proud!
10. August 30th. My first day of <big gulp> college classes. I'm so...scared.
11. September 8th - 10th. Fredericksburg with friends!
12. September 15th. This is my target date for completing the first draft of The Revival. This is the first book in The Closer Walk series and it's very important to me. Very close to my heart.
13. September 21st - 24th. ACFW's fifth annual conference will be in Dallas this year! Normally I look forward Denver or Nashville each fall for this writer's get-away but, since I'll have just returned from Louisville, it works out well all the way around. Plus I get to share the sights and sounds of Dallas with my out-of-town friends.

Comments

[Rochelle]

What a post-it-note list!! Your first day of school! It is official for the whole world to know now! You will do great!