Well, Anyway... #10- The one where she realizes she needs to start planning for summer
and her soul is slowly sucked out at the optometrist
Spring break was a little bit of a slap in the face, not gonna lie. It was a stark reminder that I am going to need to have a lot more organization in place before summer comes if I have any hope of keeping this ship sailing, still getting work done, and not completely losing my ever-loving mind.
This isn’t new. It happens every year. But for some reason it feels a little bit different this year as my kids are getting older and involved with more things. Our neighborhood is also very full of children this year and it just feels like a lot more to negotiate.
Because of this, I am diving head-long into planning-mode for summer and we are going to have a huge focus on getting ourselves prepared throughout the month of May and early June over in Patreon. SO, if you think you might need a leg up on prepping for this summer, we would sure love to have you join us over there!
What’s Your Funniest Mother’s Day Story?
So, think of this as a bit of an all-call. We want your funniest Mother’s Day stories for an upcoming podcast episode of Live Well Anyway. Bring your goofiest and best stories, including Mother’s Days gone wrong.
Also, if you have any fabulous tips for how to have a pretty decent Mother’s Day in which you don’t really have to do a whole lot, we’d love to share those too! Leave them all in the comments below or on my Instagram post.
The Weekly Recap
Podcast Out This Week- Mothering Teen Boys (we don’t have it perfect, but Katie and I have had a lot of fun raising our boys to this point. In this episode we chat about all things boy and teen.)
Patreon Lives- How to Take a Break When There is Always More to Do, Spring Selfcare Ideas, Yoga Therapy- What it is and My Experience
(If you would like to participate in the daily LIVEs in Patreon, we would love to have you! Find out more here!)
Efficiency, people!
When was the last time you went to the eye doctor? Well, I had the “pleasure” of going not once, but twice this past week, with my three children’s appointments split up onto two different days. Let me just tell you that I am hereby convinced that for some reason eye doctors are the least efficient offices on the planet. They seem to trump all other doctor experiences we encounter, besides possibly emergency rooms.
There seems to be no rhyme or reason why you have to take multiple trips in and out of the same exact room. Why there has to be such a long waiting period between all the different facets of the appointment. It’s all willy-nilly, but they look at you like you are the crazy person when you ask a simple question like, “Wouldn’t it be easier to just conduct these tests on both my daughters while we’re already in this room, instead of moving us to a different room and then bringing us back into this room again in 15 minutes to test the second one?”
How outlandish of me!
I don’t know if it is the Enneagram 3 in me or what, but when something isn’t running efficiently it slowly kills a small part of my soul. This is also true of how I feel about people walking slowly across a crosswalk or not driving the speed limit. Or, did you know, that if all the cars started moving at the same time when the light turned green far more of them would actually make it through the light instead of everyone waiting to engage in some latent green light ripple effect?!
I digress.
Basically, I’m 99% sure that I could have had that office running with less lag time if they would have turned the reigns over to me for the duration of even just one of the appointments we had this week. The Enneagram 3 in me then also starts considering how I could turn this particular talent into a part time business. It’s a real problem and embarrassing insight into my personality that I am just sure Leeann and Michelle could capitalize on in a future video. Shhhh- nobody tell them!
From the response I received from my optometrist instagram stories this week, it seems that this is a problem that reaches far and wide. For all of you out there enduring these same difficulties with your children in tow, unsure if you can play one more game of “eye spy with my little eye…” you are seen. You are known. Solidarity my friends.
And with that, I wish you a wonderful weekend! I hope it holds both fun and relaxation. If anybody needs me, I’ll be over here hoping I don’t turn into an Oompa Loompa with my new self tanner.
Go be bold, and gracious, and efficient!
And, if you’ve made it this far, share with me one of your silly pet peeves! Let’s all chat about them in the comments just for funsies!
-MacKenzie
Oh my gosh, I’m so sorry about the lack of efficiency at the eye doctor!! That would drive me NUTS. I don’t want to brag, but our eye doctor is actually on point! They have such an amazing system, they were on time and they took all my kids at the same time, it was crazy! I remember admiring them for how it went. They have even have a gorgeous lobby/wait room. I guess it must be a rare find 😬