This Friday morning I didn't get us back on schedule as I had planned.  In fact, I woke up later than the rest of the week.

I had to make a decision after breakfast as whether to go on a Spring Break outing with my family or to stay home and do school work  It was a chaotic morning in which I fluctuated back and forth and we argued about where to go.  Eventually we decided to go to a nearby town to a river park.

While on our outing I had several instances of impatience and irritability with my children.  In each of these cases the kids needed authoritative control or correction.  They were either being rambunctious, demanding, or in potential danger.   But, in each case I overreacted.  I griped, shouted, or tugged them excessively.  This is something that I loath when I see another parent doing it in public and I was that parent at times.

Overall we did have a good time and as my wife advised me it is a critical part of the children's development.  I am grateful that we got to spend the day together at the park.

When I came home I was disappointed that I am further behind in math than all semester as I still have not completed the assignments that were due on Monday. Paradoxically, since we do not have assignments due this coming Monday (for Spring Break) I will be back on schedule.

In the evening I got to go to a meeting.  When I started out I had reservations and thought about how I could get more done at home.  But I went as a matter of schedule.  I found myself feeling uptight and out of sync away from home.  I thought about how I needed the alone time whether I felt it or not.  At a point after a short prayer I felt a sigh of decompression come over me.  It was just as the intuition had struck me.  I had a long thought, perhaps a share, about my need for active recovery and a spiritual program.

Our meeting topic was staying on the beam and keeping up our spiritual program of action.  It was just the thing I had thought about on the way. Our meeting size was smaller than usual and there was some silence before two of us chimed in.  I got to share second.

Thanks be to God.