Today’s question is: Why do we come up with grand plans and then feel the crunch (and urge to procrastinate) when it’s time to execute?

Background: By nature I am a procrastinator. I procrastinate. There, I’ve admitted it. I could put off just about anything, phone calls, projects around the house (you all remember my poj problem), making dinner and painfully doing projects.

I came up with this grand plan for my little boys kindergarten teacher. She’s getting married and I thought it would be such a great idea to put together a cookbook with recipes from all the families in her classes. I’d add some artwork, some pictures and it will be this totally great cookbook. The kind I wish I had when I first got married. It is going to be cool, really, really, cool. The thing is I’m feeling the crunch.

The crunch is made worse by the fact that the teacher is making me a *wee* bit mad. She basically refused to set up a conference with me, because none of the days she had allotted worked for me. Originally, when I told her none of the days worked, she said she’d get back to me with some other dates. A week went by and I didn’t hear a thing, so I asked her. Clearly agitated, she said she had 5 conferences to make up and she just didn’t know what she was going to do. All I could think was, “this is my fault because…..???” I didn’t say that out loud, I just told her I’d take his evaluation then and screwforget the conference.

So that was bad enough.

Then yesterday my little buddy was complaining that he didn’t want to go to reading anymore because he’s missing recess (he gets a little reading help). I looked at him skeptically and said, “what do you mean buddy?” He said just that, he’s been missing recess. My boy is in kindergarten, there is no reason I can think of that would put reading for a kindergartner in front of physical exercise, especially fun recess. If the schedule has changed, skip the reading, don’t turn it into a punishment. That’s practically the sure fire way to get a kid to hate reading. When I asked her about it in an email, she said “I know it’s been happening the last week or two, hopefully it will be back to normal next week”. All I can say is, wow, I can’t believe he’s had to miss recess for a week or two, I feel kinda sorry for him (but I didn’t tell him that).

Of course, all this is making the cookbook book even harder. It’s going to be so great (that’s me convincing myself) I just hope she appreciates it.

So I’m off to work on the book (and by the way blurb is great for this stuff you anyone is looking for a great online book maker) and de toy the basement. Crunch, Crunch, Crunch.