When Life Doesn’t Go As Planned

I have to admit–earlier this week, I was seriously thinking about quitting the blog thing. I’m just not happy with my numbers–no non-spam comments, small number of views, etc. The problem with that is that I’m not in the habit of quitting things easily. I never have been. Well some things. Some things I quit pretty easily–like dieting. Exercising. Okay scratch that, maybe I quit about half of the things in my life, but that’s not the point.

Getting something started is even more difficult than keeping it going, though. There are always those excuses running through my head: “I can’t, because I don’t have time. I don’t have the money. I don’t have the energy. I’m not smart enough, beautiful enough…” The list could go on forever. You get the gist.

I can’t tell you how many times I thought I should just give up Thirty-One, because I don’t have the sales I want. Heck sometimes I want to quit parenting. (Who doesn’t?)

At the end of the day, the best laid plans don’t always work out. For instance, I lay out my schedule all nice and neat at the beginning of the week, but here I am on Thursday evening, and I haven’t put much work into my blog, I haven’t booked nearly enough parties or talked enough about recruiting. I haven’t done enough work for the church, and I haven’t done my filing. Or the ironing. Or finishing the laundry in general.

But that’s because I have two kids with ear infections. And one got bitten by the dog yesterday when she shut him in our teeny tiny bathroom (who wouldn’t be claustrophobic in there with the door closed???)…so one thing leads to another, and I’ve lost countless hours of time that I could have been doing “more important things”. I still can’t understand why she would lock the dog in the bathroom anyway; it was just an accident waiting to happen. And low and behold, it did. The only thing I can say is thank god she wasn’t bitten by another dog, or that our dog didn’t bite a stranger as we would have had a legal situation on our hands, which no one wants to have to deal with. Especially after seeing my friend get bitten by one in Atlanta. Luckily she got in touch with a really good law firm there that was able to help her get the best possible outcome, I think you can find the details at atlantaadvocate.com for anyone who may need a personal injury lawyer in that area. Even though I don’t condone what both my child and dog did, the situation could’ve been much worse. I have heard of so many cases in which someone gets bitten by a random dog (or worse, a rabid dog!) and then they have to suffer from so many additional issues, just because they were not careful enough. There are many signs that a dog may exhibit if they have rabies, as can be found on this post by The Keating Firm or similar pages; it could be helpful for the next time you come in contact with an agitated dog. That being said, I wish the whole thing never happened at all as I had so much other stuff that I needed to get done.

Instead, I was a parent. I sat with my little girl in the Emergency Room, stroked her hair, cleaned her wounds, gave her medicine, researched earache remedies (again), took temperatures, and got up in the middle of the night to snuggle.

So I suppose at the end of the day, it’s okay that I missed out on my business opportunities, my clean house, etc. Because I got to spend some much-needed time with my kids. There are so many more children out there who need that.