Acceptance
urgent. My to-do list doesn’ t seem to shrink as I slog to get through it. I misplaced a permission slip that needed to be sent to school for one of the kids. Although I’ m generally in a good mood, there’ s a sense that I could be doing things better. The majority of my days are like this, a healthy mix of just right and just a dash of challenge.
Then there are the days like today. Challenging doesn’ t even begin to describe it. We’ re out of coffee, the caffeinated kind. In desperation I made a pot of the decaffeinated kind we keep on hand for visitors. No dice. Now it’ s 4:00 in the afternoon and I’ ve got a headache from lack of caffeine.
I haven’ t been able to check anything off my to-do list yet( see headache above). I’ ve had a slight chest cold for three days now which makes just the act of breathing seem difficult.
Today is Friday and I’ m checking over the kids’ schedules for the weekend. Forget about having a relaxing weekend. It’ s going to be go, go, go for the next two days.
To top it all off, payday isn’ t until tomorrow and we’ re out of almost everything. Literally— food, toilet paper, you name it, we’ re out of it. It wouldn’ t be so bad if all the
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