That wasn't the plan...

I'm sure you can all relate to things not going the way you had "planned."  Here is a small taste of what that it is like in Hato Mayor:

Friday Morning, the plan was to get up early and go for a walk.  Our beds were just too comfortable, so we ended up doing the Jillian Michael’s workout video instead. We were ready to start our busy day.  The communication team was coming in the morning to work on their project, the cards team later that afternoon, data entry and the list goes on. 

We remembered that the garbage truck which was supposed to come on Thursday and didn't make it, should arrive soon.  When we went out to carry the garbage back down the stairs, we discovered a disaster!  

The dogs got it!  Those naughty dogs climbed the stairs, tore the bag open, pushed it off the stairway and spread our garbage all over the street.  With plastic bags on our hands for gloves, we spent the morning picking up, cleaning the stairs and the sidewalk and the street.  That wasn’t the plan…..

 

Monday morning, the plan was to get laundry done right away.  I wanted to finish data input, type some Spanish songs for the English class to translate and put together a list of our teams' contact information. I walked to the kitchen half awake, eager for a bowl of granola and thought I saw something moving in the sink.

I looked again and under all of our "clean" dishes drying in the rack, I found a HUGE spider.  This was not just any huge spider it was a mother, trying to find a place for her baby spiders to “leave the nest.”

Kristin heard my squeal and said calmly, "what did you find."  With Kristin’s quick thinking, clever plan and “ninja skills” she killed the mother spider.  I followed up with the can of Raid to kill all the fleeing baby spiders.  I spent the next hour cleaning the kitchen sink and then the "clean" dishes. That wasn’t the plan….
 

So thankful for raid and plastic bag gloves!

Sometimes we wonder why it takes so long to get things done.  As we've reflected, we've discovered quite a few similar situations that have needed our immediate attention.  Things that just weren't in the plan....  But, they always make our day interesting!  :)