Time Management

I am going to start out being 100% honest. I have a hard time with this one. This is the reason it has been so long since the last post. My original idea was to post in here at least 2 times a week. Now I am lucky to post once a week. Time management is not my friend. If I plan out my day the night before with time slots for everything, it is really good. I can usually stick to it pretty well. It's when I forget to write things down, or something unexpected happens, I lose it, and for days.I don't know why, but it will take me days to recover from something unexpected.

For an example I will tell you about a few things that have happened in my life. The first was my husband had a surgery. It was planned for. We knew almost a month in advance. I really was able to plan around it. I thought about things that could happen. The best and worst case scenarios and planned according. I made meals ahead of time. Made sure my house was spotless and had pretty much everything planned to a T. The day of the surgery I literally had everything ready. I had food and homework for the kids, had all the laundry done, folded and hung, had dishes done, nothing in the dishwasher, floors were clean... literally everything. Fast forward 2 weeks. With him being home, the kids have been crazy. They are not used to him being here so they've been a little more hyper and crazy. So it's been a little harder for me to keep up with everything. Then this last Tuesday, the 31st, I took my 3rd son in for a typical "take your cast off appointment." Could it just stay that way? No. Of course not. It turned into him feeling really cold, shivering, and having a headache. That turned into him literally passing out into the arms of me and the doctor. he came to, started throwing up, had intense leg pain, turned a pasty gray color and had me all freaked out. They called 911 and made the ambulance take us to ER and that's where we stayed for about 3 more hours. The next day I had to take him for a follow-up with his pediatrician. That wasn't any simple appointment either. That tuned into an almost 3 hour event.

I said all that to tell you, I am so far behind on EVERYTHING!!! My life feels like a whirlwind of crazy and so out of control. Today I should have been catching up and doing all the things that have been neglected. (including this website). But I have seriously had zero energy. I have wanted to sit all day, which has not happened either LOL! So, now I am updating this, telling you more about my crazy self. Trying to get back on track for all the craziness around me. I know that I will catch up, something will knock me down, I will catch up, something will knock me down, and the cycle will continue. But it is always nice to see what happens on this journey. Everything will not be fun and smell like roses all the time. But it;s what you do in the situations that life throws you. It's what you chose to learn from it all. And there is a lesson in everything that happens to us. There is always something to be thankful for. Just make sure you are looking for the rainbow and not always for the clouds. You may not always have everything together, or feel like you accomplish everything you want to in a day or even week. Be thankful for what you did do, and smile about that. That is something I am learning and it makes a difference. I make sure I am thankful for something every night before I go to bed.

Today I am thankful that we are all home together and in good health. I am thankful that even though things feel out of control in my house, I have a house to sleep and food to eat. I am thankful that there will be coffee in the morning!