“Why didn’t Kay go to work today?” Super Dad asked.
“She did go to work,” I replied.
“But LuLu tells me Kay took her to her swim lesson.”
“She did.”
“I thought her swim lesson was a noon.”

My mild giggle turned into a belly-rolling guffaw as we continued to talk about how many twists and turns had taken place in our “normal” schedule for a Thursday. Today was abnormal even for my family (where normal is definitely only a setting on the washing machine!)

Today was all about juggling life. There are days that I find myself being so flexible that Stretch Armstong has nothing on me. Today, I just found my plate so full of stuff…that flexibility was a given.

We’re two weeks away today from ATN’s 2nd annual Parenting Traumatized Children conference, and the daily details are overwhelming. I started my day by putting the finishing touches on the program to send off to the printer today and writing a blog on mood stabilizers. The program is finished, but somewhere along the way I lost the blog…not sure where it went, but I know it hasn’t shown up here!

After that I ran a ton of errands, arranged for the ATN booth to get to Tampa for the NACAC conference, answered a bushel of emails, and soon the phone receiver had grown to my ear. Then it was off to church for a meeting about the big event that Super Dad and I are spearheading (if we live through the ATN conference next week.)

Right before heading out the door tonight, I got a call from the lab where LuLu’s latest testing was done. They found something significant…a definite positive on a biomed test. I had to fight back the urge to cancel all the rest of the day’s activities and delve into research about these latest findings. I have yet to learn what this latest discovery means.

There’s a lot that didn’t go “right” today…but there really wasn’t that much that went “wrong”. Mostly, like always, I was just crazy busy with things I hold as dearly important: caring for my family and volunteering for ATN and my church family.

As I was debriefing Nancy of our latest ATN conference information, I mentioned the various detours and discoveries of my day.

“Never a dull moment around here!” I concluded.

“You wouldn’t want it any other way,” she replied.

So true…so very true.