It Doesn’t Always Work As Planned: Dealing With Things Not Always Going Your Way

When I first put together the Project Motherhood content calendar for the month of January, I sat back and took a long hard look at my month. I examined different activities and events, and basically took into account different things that I wanted to write about and share with my lovely readers. The month of January was busy for us getting back to NYC from being away in Pittsburgh for the holidays, and then each and every weekend throughout the whole month, my husband had to either drill at his Reserve post or had a paintball day scheduled.

Yikes! “It was to be a month of weekends without Daddy.” I thought to myself, as I tried to schedule in some kid friendly activities for me and my little man to attend to. So whenever I was putting together ideas for today’s post, it was originally called “Weekend Review: Kid-Friendly & Indoors,” but as you can see “It Doesn’t Always Work As Planned,” and today’s post was born!

In all honesty, I had expectations and plans for the weekends through the month of January and some of our plans happened, while in other cases, life happened in its place. Business meetings were scheduled, stomach virus’s intruded, and temper tantrums happened (resulting in punishment FROM activities) that took place of original plans.

It’s funny because this post is acting as a direct reflection of something that I have been trying to learn and my husband has been trying to teach me for years now, it doesn’t always work as planned, and that’s OK. I NEED to able to roll with the punches and change up my routine and plan every once in a while. My google calendar is just a sketch, and clearly it is not set in stone, nor should I expect it to be with the various uncertainties of running a family. My original post will be written someday, but for now, I found that sometimes a little bit of doing nothing on the weekends is important, too.

Do you have trouble dealing with things not always going your way?  Or do you roll with the punches like a champion? Please share!

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Allison