Do the thing now, write about it later.
Or, why my Mother's Day post is out on Monday.
As you may have noticed, yesterday came and went with no Mother’s Day post. This has become something of a pattern for me lately where I end up posting the day after I had intended to publish.
I spent yesterday with the wife and little one doing wonderful Mother’s Day things. Visiting my mom (with bagels and schmear in tow, naturally), taking the little one out in the lovely weather for her first bike ride of the season, giving the wife some much-deserved alone time, enjoying a (not so healthy) yummy vegan dinner…
And so today, when all the hullabaloo has passed, I can put some thoughts down. But throughout the day yesterday, I found myself having brief moments of stress – “when am I going to write today? How am I going to get this post up today??“
This despite one very obvious truth:
No one cares a lick when my Mother’s Day post comes out.
I had similar anxiety during the last week of April, when we were on a family vacation down south. We spent our days being very vacationy, doing vacation things. That wasn’t what made it difficult to keep to my original posting schedule. It was all the little tasks that fill up the wife’s and my evening after the vacationing has ended for the day – putting the little one to bed, cleaning up, doing laundry in a strange place, planning and prepping for the next day… By the time all of that was over, it was almost the next day, which is when many of my semi-weekly updates of the poem-a-day challenge would come out. And, as much as you hopefully enjoyed them, I would place quite a lot of money on the idea that it didn’t really bother you whether they came out on a Wednesday instead of Tuesday, or a Saturday instead of Friday.
Consistency is important and keeping to schedule is important, sure. But not when it gets in the way of actually doing the thing itself.
With that, happy belated Mother’s Day. Be as celebratory and grateful for them today as you were yesterday. And, if you’re in need of a belated gift for the mother or mother-figure in your life, Every Day, Luv can help. :)