My husband bought me a day-to-day inspirational calendar for Christmas. I love seeing the thoughts and advice from others and found today’s entry to be particularly appropriate. It was attributed to Ashleigh Brilliant and reads “It’s not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line.” Wow, I think this person must live in our house because they couldn’t have written truer words. Being a CarePartner usually means being confronted with multiple challenges and the only guide I have as to which I tackle first is which will impact my husband the most.

I’m somewhat ashamed to admit that it’s mid-afternoon and my breakfast dishes are still in the kitchen sink because unloading and reloading the dishwasher was not the priority yet. I did help my husband shower and dress, we did our weekly grocery shopping, we exercised for an hour. I fixed a leaking faucet in our master bath and am successfully getting a blog written for tomorrow. The dishes come next, unless something else pops up sooner.

It would be so nice if every challenge I face came with a rating that told me where to place it on my to-do list. Unfortunately, even if I had the list, it’s the unexpected things that will always throw me off. My husband told me this morning that he was having a “low-energy” day which should have told me that I would have a “low-accomplishment” day. The one item that always has to stay at the top of my list is for me to “be grateful for today and rejoice in what I do complete without lamenting over what I don’t.” I’m doing my best to keep things going and that is all I can do. And, it really is all okay.