Are you too scheduled?

Me and my schedules. I have somethings that are set times, but many things are just mental notes of stuff I have to get done and the general order that I'm going to do them. Pretty much each day I know what I am setting out to accomplish. Well this all had a funny turn of events last night. Since Jorge has been gone the kids have taken turns sleeping with me. It was Cathy's turn, but Jorge was in bed crying because he wanted to sleep with me too. I wanted to get on the computer and prepare some illustrations for tonight's Dynamic Women's thing. I tried consoling for a bit, and finally exasperation hit and I said, "Jorge, I don't have time to sit here while you cry and I don't want to hear you cry either. This isn't in my schedule I have things to do." He was intrigued, he said "schedule, what do you mean." I said, "I have stuff to do and you crying wasn't in the plan, the schedule" He started smiling. He said, "so if it's not in the schedule you can't do it." I said, "yeah, we can't cry right now. do you want me to fit crying in the schedule for tomorrow." By this time he "got it" and was laughing and said, "yeah put crying in the schedule tomorrow" So I said, "should it be in the morning, after school, or at bedtime." He wanted it at bedtime. I said, "ok, but it will be pretty funny when you get in bed with me and you have to cry because its on the schedule."

So today after school he asked me "mom, is crying still on the schedule?" I said, "yep. are you going to do it." He asked if he had to. I said, "we can take it off the schedule if you want." He decided he didn't want to cry anymore so I should cross it off the schedule.

It was just so funny how one exasperated statement turned things into a funny situation.