And just like that when you think you’ve got something sorted something new pops up. Not quite the meaning originally intended for this phrase but it often pops into my mind when I have my plans worked out for today and need to go in a different direction.
With another adult unexpectedly working, one grandchild doing homeschooling and another home sick my work for today just flew out the window. When I was young I thought being an adult meant doing as I pleased. I guess I still could but being a responsible adult means thinking of others and helping out even if it isn’t convenient.

I imagine that my grandparents felt that and then some, when their single daughter returned from her dream overseas post much earlier than anticipated because she had discovered she was pregnant with me. The event had taken place before she left and meant she couldn’t keep her job. She confessed to me when I was an adult that there was a moment on the ship home, when she had been looking down at the water, she wondered if life was still worth living. I imagine she, most of all, had that vertiginous feeling of the world having taken a strange and frightening direction. In the 1950s choosing to keep me was no easy decision.

In the scheme of things then today isn’t that big a deal. It puts off me being able to begin designing the art packs I’ve been planning for some time now. I’m not employed the moment and I’d thought to use the time, between job searches, working on the nitty gritty of exactly how to do everything and sort out new business software. I’d even thought that sitting in my daughter’s place, all alone, I’d have the time and space to actually create the first prototype. That now is for another day.

I find I can either choose to do these things wholeheartedly or I can be inwardly cursing the time ‘wasted’ and be upset all day. For now I’m letting my ideas simmer away in the back of my mind and concentrating on helping others and improve, hopefully, my blogging skills. I’ve already worked out a nifty little thing today that will be helpful in future efforts.

Whatever you are doing now, planned or unplanned I hope your efforts go smoothly and that if you are helping someone that they appreciate your efforts. Now I need to go check the mathematics of one child and the temperature of another. Life moves on and sets it’s own agenda regardless of our planning.