How flexible are you? How do you take things when they fall apart?
Yesterday a simple task turned into an all afternoon job. All I simply wanted to do was to hang a few family pictures over my couch. When I was dusting the other pictures in the collage, one of the pictures came crumbling down. The picture collage was now destroyed. What was I going to do? How would I fix it? Would the store take the picture back and refund my money? A simple task turned into something big.
After picking up my little girl from day camp we headed to the store. Yes, I did get a refund and then the search began for a new item to place with the picture collage. Now there were more questions. Another picture? Design phrase? Would I be able to find what I wanted? After another stop or two we finally found something that might work.
We quickly rushed home to begin putting the new collage together. First everything had to come down and we began organizing the collage on the floor. (That's the best way to know what it will look like on the wall. A trick I learned from my Home Economics teacher in college.) Now there were more questions. Could I get the letters straight? Would it look good? Could I get it done before my husband came home? Would he notice the changes?
With the help of my 8 year old daughter, we began to assemble the new collage of family memories. The two of us had lots of fun and enjoyed working together. So bottom line, my simple task of adding a few pictures to the collage turned into a much more time intensive task but it was one that became a family event and we enjoyed working together. And by the way, my husband noticed the change.
So, simple tasks can become big tasks but it is all how you look at them and how you face the task ahead. Be flexible and enjoy the moment to make memories.
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