{"id":25240,"date":"2014-06-10T12:58:09","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T16:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mominthecity.com\/"},"modified":"2015-03-27T00:19:56","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T04:19:56","slug":"ms-most-organized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mominthecity.com\/ms-most-organized\/","title":{"rendered":"Ms. Most Organized"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cYou are the most organized person that I know\u201d <\/strong><\/em>is a phrase that I have heard many times in my life. That statement is followed by the usual follow-up question \u201cWere you born like that?\u201d<\/strong><\/em> Yes and No. Yes in that I was born with a propensity to like order and a clear sense of how to get from point A to point B. No in that I\u2019m only organized about people and things that I care about \u2013 not everything. As I tell friends, \u201cI\u2019m only as organized as I have to be!\u201d As a mom, I\u2019m both more AND much less organized than I have ever been in my life.<\/p>\n

I could give you tips on how to be a more organized person, but I won\u2019t. There are plenty of other posts and articles out there about that. Rather, I want to share about the limits of organization. As moms, it\u2019s great to be organized but life happens and we need to be fine when things don\u2019t go according to schedule. Life is chaotic. At this point, I just try to keep things at an \u201corganized chaos\u201d level\u2026and I\u2019m happy with that!<\/p>\n

Last week was the perfect example regarding the limits to organization. Over the weekend, I had spent 3 to 4 hours planning out the month of June. I was feeling great and on top of things. Then, the week started. A friend\u2019s loved one had passed away so Reggie and I definitely wanted to go and support her at the memorial service. No problem. I worked out the babysitting and added that to the calendar. Easy Peasy. Not so fast. <\/p>\n

Monday afternoon came and the kids brought home their June school calendar. (Why didn\u2019t I get the calendar for June before June? Whatever.) I looked at their calendar and saw that the first week of June was now shot to pieces schedule-wise. There was one half day off, one full day off and also a Spirit Day \u2013 all in the first week. Since the kids were out on Thursday, I scrambled to reschedule a Thursday breakfast to Friday. That worked out. Once I had rescheduled Thursday\u2019s breakfast to Friday, Sean mentioned that he wanted me to come to their Spirit Day on Friday. When I responded that I had already switched my breakfast from Thursday to Friday, he started to tear up and said, \u201cBut you NEVER come to my Spirit Days!\u201d For the record, this was only his second one. I had gone to the first one but the school had mistakenly put down the wrong time for when his Kindergarten class was supposed to compete. I remember\u2026there were a bunch of unhappy Kindergarten parents waiting behind the fence to cheer on their kids who had already gone back inside the school. It wasn\u2019t a good scene \u2013 especially for the parents who had taken the day off from work to attend!<\/p>\n

Anyway, logic doesn\u2019t matter to young kids. All that Sean knew was that I missed last year and I was going to miss this year too. Fortunately, I was able to reschedule the (new) Friday reservation to an earlier time so that I could both enjoy the breakfast and get back to the Spirit Day on time. I\u2019m so glad that I did, because Sean was looking for me like a hawk! The pay-off was that he was super-smiley and waved at me every 5 to 10 minutes to express how happy he was that I had made it. Whew!<\/p>\n

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I made it to Spirit Day\u2026with 1 minute to spare!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So, were those hours of planning the month in vain? I don\u2019t think so. I see planning and organization as a framework for my life. It makes the chaos of life much more manageable. Meanwhile, I try to allot as much \u201cwiggle room\u201d in my calendar as possible to leave room for this thing called LIFE that happens and doesn\u2019t always fit so neatly into my (or anyone else\u2019s) carefully plotted out plans. In any event, I would rather relinquish my \u201cMs. Organized\u201d title than to miss out on spending time with my loved ones. Organization is great but being present and giving attention to the people and the things that I truly value is most important! <\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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