refocus

so my babies are sick.  my daughter was officially diagnosed with pneumonia (yes i just wrote that in a Word document to check the spelling) on monday night and my son seems to be battling a nasty cold.  boo.  really not fun.  my daughter's cough has been horrible.  so bad that at times she stops making noise from coughing so long and so hard.  there is a thick layer of snot on everything i'm wearing, she's wearing, and on most of the furniture.  her eyes are usually "gooped" closed after she has slept and her temperature, which is finally broken, has been bouncing between 101 and 103.  now that she is sleeping and apparently on the mends i can feel a little less frantic about the whole thing.  but frantic i was, at least during the really bad moments.

so this has been my focus of the past several days... a different focus than usual.  for the past several months my focus with my daughter has been her development.  she has displayed some developmental delays and so we have been working with a special instructor and an occupational therapist to help her "catch up" to where she should be.  we spend our days stacking blocks (which she hates), coloring in books (which she has no interest in), and saying phrases like "dog in," "mama eat," and "baby cry" (which leads to less than stimulating conversation).  but with all this i have been consummed.  i have spent so many hours either working on these skills or worrying about her lack of ability or interest in these.  so so so many hours.

but these past few days we haven't touched one block.  the crayons are still neatly contained.  the words have been silenced by coughs.  and i haven't worried about her development... at least not as much.  in the face of something more serious, my focus has been, well, refocused.  priorities have changed for the moment.
this makes me wonder, what else in my life needs a little refocus?  what is it that i spend too much time thinking about?  worrying about?  mentally or physically arranging?  trying to perfect?
how about you?  anything in your life that is taking up too much mind space?  anything that is consuming more of you than is necessary?  just wondering...

i know that eventually the blocks will once again emerge and i will start to encourage my daughter to develop this silly skill.  but maybe this next time i might be able to regard it from a better perspective.  here's hoping!