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The best broken plans

Sometimes when you have even the best things planned, it turns out being ok or even better when those plans get broken. Today, my friend Traci and I planned to take our kids a) to the Children's Museum; b) then to lunch; and then c) to go bowling.  It's March Break and all so time to plan some fun stuff for the kiddies.  And we were looking forward to catching up too.  We were successful with parts a) and b) of our plan, but yesterday when I called the bowling alley to find out what their hours were specifically for today, they failed to tell me that all their lanes were booked for three hours this afternoon for a preschool's field trip.  Which of course, was starting right as we arrived after lunch.  So our bowling plans were kaiboshed. Traci and I weren't all that disappointed however, on two accounts:  first, Traci realized only as we were steps away from the doors of the bowling alley that she wasn't wearing socks.  Not a good predicament to be in when you're about to put on rented bowling shoes.  But secondly, it was a beeee-YOOOO-tee-ful day out today; sunny, warm and the smell of spring was in the air.  So we talked the kids out of their initial disappointment about not being able to bowl and convinced them that it would be a fine idea for Traci and I to pick up coffee on the way back to my house, and head over to the school so they could shoot some hoops. And we did just that.  Set up our fold-up lawn chairs on the tarmac at school and we sipped our vanilla lattes in the sun while the boys played 21.  And though we missed an afternoon of friendly competition at the lanes with the boys, Traci and I got a real chance to catch up and have some great discussion about life, goals, coming through adversities and what the point of it all is anyway (we didn't really arrive at an answer for that last part, but the discussion was lively).  I even got a faint sunburn on my face and neck, which, for the first sun-shiny-sit-outside-in-the-lawn-chair kind of a day, I'm not even upset about.  I wear it with joy and pride. Sometimes, an unexpected and initially disappointing change in plans turns out for the better.  The delightfully better.

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