Her Words Made It All Better!

My morning didn't quite work out the way I had planned today.  In fact, my entire day was thrown off track due to the fact that Maryland schools are operating on a 2-hour delay for the remainder of the week.  Instead of being able to drop-off my daughter at 7am for Before Care at her school, I have to drop her off at 9am which, of course, pushes everything else back including my arrival for work on time.  So, I fell into line with the new plan and dropped my daughter off at the appropriate time... only to get to the metro parking station and realize there was not a single parking space available, not even the "Reserved Parking" spaces that open up at 10am and are usually abundant and wide open.  I was in complete shock when I pulled into the station.  But I was even more shocked when I went to leave the station to search for other parking and was charged the $4.25 daily fee for two minutes of driving around the full lot.  I sighed momentarily and proceeded up the Beltway to search for parking at a few other stations only to see signs posted at each station that there was no available parking.  I am still clueless as to what was going on this morning.  This has NEVER happened to me before.  Finally, I gave up on my mission of trying to get to work today.  Instead, I decided to enjoy some "me" time.  Well, that thought lasted for all of five minutes until I realized that instead of wasting the whole day I had better get some things accomplished.

I started with a trip to the cable company to stand in line and wait to return some equipment, then a trip to the Post Office to stand in line to overnight some important documents for hubby, back to pick-up the boys and take them to the pediatrician to sit and wait so they could get their annual checkups, and then to my daughter's school in time to pick her up at the close of the school day at 3:30pm.  Once again, I used a day that could have been a "mental health day" for mommy as a "let me hustle and get things accomplished" day.  But at the end of the day the thing that made it all better was my 6-year-old daughter's comment when I picked her up from school early (early meaning she didn't have to stay at school in After Care until 6pm as she usually does) -- she had a huge smile on her face and matter of factly said, "Mommy, I love when you pick me up from school early."  That simply melted my heart because she had no idea that I get just as much joy and satisfaction from picking her up early as she does.

Today was nothing short of motivation for me to continue working diligently to grow my business in order to make drastic life changes and gain a much more flexible schedule to spend more quality time with my three precious kids.

Cheryl