Schedules

I despise keeping up with schedules.  I try, quite desperately, to keep track of where everyone is or needs to be.  I have a daughter who's schedule must be top secret because I am only given notice a few hours ahead of time.   I have the weekends Jim works, peoples birthdays, preplanned events and appointments in our family calendar.  It took me weeks to get Rylee into orthopedics and now she tells me that I have scheduled it on top of the State basketball tournament. So, after I cancelled something else to make this dr appointment happen, I reschedule it.  To confuse things even more, I end up with 3 funerals that I have to attend. When I was sick I was unable to go to 3 funerals and I felt awful about it.  I wasn't there to say goodbye to my aunt and I didn't support friends.  That's not who I am.  As I make arrangements at work to be at these funerals, I realize that I have to re-reschedule Rylee's orthopedic appointment! Ugh!!  So I call again. 

I go months without having to do a whole lot and then, all at once, I have to book everything in the same month. Then out of the blue, I will have another month where it seems like there are one or two things every week.  I'm sure my boss finds it just as frustrating.

The weirdest thing is that I am not nearly as busy as I used to be when I worked 2 jobs and had 2 daughters in dance; one who danced 6 days a week sometimes!

Jim has been trying to book a weekend getaway for March and, sadly, I keep throwing a wrench into his plans because the schedule is already full.  I have a cousin who has been planning a family get together but it falls on a weekend that opened up an opportunity for our whole family to do something together and I had to choose which to schedule.  I really despise schedules.