I love the weekends! I normally start my weekdays at 5am. So weekends mean I don’t get up until at least 6am. It is my unspoken splurge. This past Sunday morning I first woke up at 5:02am. Excitedly, I rolled back over happy for another hour in bed. When I looked at the clock again, I saw 6:17am. It felt like I had just blinked, how did it go so fast? Nevertheless, I decided I would get up and start the coffee routine. I got back into the bedroom and to my amazement, and now with fully functioning eyeballs (and COFFEE!), it was 5:38am. Nice job Jackie! 

Next on my agenda, how was I going spend my extra hour?

Sundays, I like to hike after breakfast. Unfortunately, the night before, we got a deluge of rain. It was brisk 40’s and still wet. So now my hike was out.  NEXT!

Next, I decided to get hubby’s help setting up my new work laptop. It had been delivered and sitting in a box for 2 weeks now. I was dreading the set up. No matter how clear the instructions from your tech department, inevitably it never works. I don’t want to spoil the ending here, BUT this also did not go as planned. Do I have any other mamas that work remote and can relate?  What should have been 10 minutes was over an hour, and it still wasn’t set up correctly. In my delay of upgrading, I had to change my password, and so the new laptop is just royally confused, and so was its owner. NEXT!

Okay- so I woke up early on a weekend, I couldn’t hike because of the rain, my hopes of getting my work laptop upgrade without issues were dashed. What could I try next?  

We decided to tackle the dusty dingy basement / mechanical room. I am using the married ‘we’ meaning it was hubby mostly. Okay, fine, it was ALL hubby… but I did help once, and it was a BIG help! There was an old gross recliner in the mechanical room. An unwelcome ‘gift’ left by the previous owners. (Is now a good time to mention we have owned this house for 6 years?) I don’t even know want to know what was living in this thing! But we had stairs, corners and several obstacles to navigate through, so my help was necessary. If only it were possible to move this recliner via telekinesis. The recliner was so disgusting. I changed clothes immediately after even though they didn’t technically make contact with this lovely piece of furniture! Germs by proximity! NEXT!

So far this chore was working out, no speed bumps. Until our vacuum cleaner gave out!   But a vacuum cleaner wasn’t going to stop our momentum because we had a new back up vacuum cleaner still in its box! (Doesn’t everyone have an extra brand new vacuum cleaner lying around the house?) Okay, so it was going to momentarily stop us because this brand new vacuum needed to charge. Setting up the charging was MY job.  This was a good time for a well earned lunch break! 

Fast-forward, it is now after lunch and the clean up continues! Well, I mean it would have, if the person that was supposed to charge the vacuum cleaner actually completed that task correctly? That entire break when we thought the vacuum was charging, it wasn’t. Time to fire the help, oh wait, that’s ME! NEXT!

Mamas, isn’t this life? It feels like you navigate one crisis and there is a new one standing in line to take its place. But that brings me to one of my favorite verses. I know I have shared it before, but it I Chronicles 28:10 when King David tells his son Solomon:

“Be strong and do the work.” 

Mamas, we all have days where NOTHING seems to go right. JUST DO SOMETHING. After a day of thwarted plans and detours, we just did something ELSE. In they end, all those little unexpected ‘surprises’ still resulted in a sparkling clean home, AND a blog post! Who would have ever thought you could make a boring day of cleaning into an amusing anecdote. 

Challenge accepted!! Mamas, what detours do you need to accept?