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Best Laid Plans

February 9, 2014 by Alison 8 Comments

Best laid plans

 

In case anyone was wondering, I spent yesterday trying to be hyper-organized for the upcoming weeks. I’m pretty organized at work and with my blog, but when it comes to the house and family, it’s kind of a system of getting people where they need to be hopefully when they need to be there, and hoping the house gets cleaned up and meals cooked when time allows. We don’t starve or live in shambles (usually), but there’s definitely no method to the madness. I really do try and I have the best of intentions, but life just always kind of has a way of messing up the schedules I come up with. So, anyway, yesterday I decided that today was going to consist of some very specific activities so that I can give this organization thing one more shot: house cleaning, meal planning, laundry (including getting it all put away), and one big shopping trip to load up on stuff that I need to follow the meal plan for at least the next two weeks. Honestly I was very motivated and pretty excited because I just knew that this time it was going to work, everyone was going to be on board, and things were going to start getting more routine. Boy was I wrong!

 

What could have happened in the last 12 hours that basically blew all the planning in the world out the window you ask? Well, let’s start with snow. Mind you’ve we’ve had basically no snow at all whatsoever all winter long which is very rare for the Pacific Northwest. I think everyone started to think it was passing us by this winter, and honestly, I was totally fine with that. But no…not so fast. In the last 18 hours, we’ve gotten over a foot of snow. It’s pretty much stopped for now, but there’s more expected this evening and over the next few days. Mind you, it was originally reported that  yesterday & last night’s snowfall would bring two to four inches…evidently they were wrong.

 

Snowfall in Pacific Northwest

 

So what’s a little snow? No big deal really, we have two four wheel drives and I was still very determined to make that big shopping trip and follow through with my master plan. Then it happened…hubby started out saying he thought he had heartburn and ended up hurling all over the bathroom…and by all over I mean, floors, walls…you get the picture. I felt horrible, because I’ve never seen him get so sick so fast and it was all night long. One the bright side I did get to start on the housecleaning before today because the bathroom required some serious mopping and disinfecting, but I certainly won’t be leaving the kids home with him so I can go run errands today. He’s doing better, but not out of bed yet as of the time of writing this, so you can see where my big plans are beginning to get shot to hell.

 

By the way, anyone have a snow shovel….I need to clear the driveway and path to the mailbox before tomorrow otherwise we have a whole new set of issues!

Filed Under: Family, Humor

Comments

  1. Rhonda says

    February 9, 2014 at 4:48 pm

    Oh my goodness! You guys got dumped on! We were supposed to get a little, but it ended up being barely a dusting. It was actually a little disappointing. This might end up being the winter without snow here.

    I hope your husband is feeling better. It’s always so hard with someone sick in the family, so best of luck to you!

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    • Alison says

      February 9, 2014 at 6:15 pm

      Yeah it was quite a crap load overnight lol . I think everyone’s pretty much dug out now, but they’re saying either more snow or freezing rain which is even worse over the next few days so we shall see how it all goes. It does make it hard when someone is sick, especially when it’s one of the adults because then everything falls on the other person and when your plate is already full, it seems like it may just topple…The worst has passed though I think, so fortunately it was just a 24 hour thing and not a week long ordeal like so many people are experiencing this flu season, so in that respect I have to say we’re pretty lucky.

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  2. Angela @Little Apple Tree says

    February 11, 2014 at 10:59 am

    Wow, that’s quite a fall of snow! We’re supposed to get a light dusting overnight in the UK, which will make a nice change from all the torrential rain we’ve been having, but then it’s going to go right back to raining. I hope your husband is feeling much better by now; being violently ill in such a short space of time is really hard on the body.

    #SITSBlogging

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  3. Alexa says

    February 11, 2014 at 1:03 pm

    And men are such cry babies when they are sick! So sorry that your plans got sidetracked. I feel that way this week cause we are going to have 2-3 snow days this week (and I’m in SC so we rarely get snow!) and it is throwing me through a big ole loop!

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  4. Amy Ruiz says

    February 11, 2014 at 7:28 pm

    Ugh, that totally sucks. I just moved to Minnesota (from California) and we are having one of the coldest winters in like 50 years or some crazy thing. Lucky me! I can handle subfreezing temps, but subzero with a wind chill are a bit much.

    Spring will be here soon, right? #SITSBlogging

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    • Alison says

      February 11, 2014 at 8:14 pm

      I sure hope so! Tonight is supposed to be warmer temps but high wind which translates into flooding. Which is great because that will be just in time for the next storm system to blow through for the weekend! Smh

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  5. Alena@TheHomemadeCreative says

    February 11, 2014 at 11:17 pm

    Yep, snow will derail just about the best laid plans. We’ve got plow piles over 8′ tall here in Illinois.

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  6. Rheanna says

    February 12, 2014 at 2:08 pm

    I’ve heard from several people the snow up there is just crazy. you guys so are not used it!!
    I don’t think you are alone in the whole “best laid plans” thing. I’m just like you. I think when you throw so many variables into the equation…namely my adorable children….well, there you go.
    hopefully you can get organized better later…and maybe being stuck inside with the snow might help 🙂 maybe…

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