Thursdays at CatholicMom.com begin with a look at the past week’s Small Successes!
So far this week, it’s been one unscheduled thing after another.
I don’t usually do schedule changes well. I like to know when things will happen. And yes, I do have a Google calendar so colorful that my older son compared it to a quilt:
Things that happened that weren’t on my color-coded calendar: my daughter’s car wouldn’t start on Sunday and had to be towed to our mechanic. She had a doctor’s appointment Monday to finish an immunization series required for her nursing-school clinicals. So I got to drive back and forth to LaSalle twice on Monday, because the car wasn’t ready yet and she had to get back to school to study for a test.
Fortunately I knew on Sunday night that I’d need to do this, so I was up and working early Monday morning. I managed to get my work done for the day, get to Mass, do a load of laundry, clean both bathrooms and make a good dinner in addition to all the driving.
On Tuesday I spent an hour or more preparing for a meeting, but the others who were supposed to attend the meeting were no-shows. I spent another hour or more stressing about that. I also baked some cookies.
I was doing pretty well with all that unscheduled stuff until this morning when TheKid missed the bus. He’d made the bus for 6 school days in a row and I was hoping this was a trend; now we’ll need to figure out how to get him back on track for tomorrow. I tried not to yell and poison the morning. I didn’t raise my voice, but we didn’t part on happy terms today. (I know I’m breaking the Small Success “rules” by saying this here, but here I am, back to trying to figure out how to get TheKid to build good habits and respect other people’s time.)
This week I also created a new recipe for pork stir-fry/lo mein. It came out really good!
And yesterday I had the chance to meet my parents for lunch; they were on their way back from vacation, so we found a place along their route that was only about 30 minutes from me.
I made a resolution this summer to learn something new every week. I managed to create sidebar widgets for the two books for which I’m a contributor! (Purchase your copies today!)
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Wow! That’s an amazing schedule, and I want the recipe for those cookies. They look yummy. What a great week, thanks for being part of SST.
Sherry, I linked the recipe in the post. Here it is again: https://cookandcount.wordpress.com/2015/05/19/cookie-time-double-chocolate-peanut-butter-cookies/
Recipe only makes 50 so you might need to double this!
That calendar is something else There were seasons when mine looked like that. Good luck with convincing the kid that he is tromping on someone else’s time. My older son is good at calling at the last minute asking us to babysit. And it was not something that just popped up. Sigh.
My calendar isn’t as colorful as yours, Barb, but I don’t do unscheduled well either. Hope you have less of that in the coming week!