Last week was one of those weeks.
My entire family, excluding me, caught the stomach bug.
Our car started spontaneously leaking diesel.
Our neighbor was burgled (such a funny word), and we discovered that our alarm system was not working.
I got onto the blog early in the week to draft a post, and found that all of my custom settings had reverted back to the wordpress default. FUN!
In the midst of the chaos, I decided to just take the main page offline for a bit while I figured out what went wrong. As the week slowly passed, I found myself editing bits and bobs of the website, fixing not only the bugs, but also some other settings I wanted to change. I guess that was the main benefit of last week. As things began to really go awry, I cancelled meetings, delegated responsibility to others, and spent a lot of time at home. I could not go anywhere for very long, so I had some idle time to work on the things that are always on the back burner. I finally added an About Me page. (I’ll add a picture as soon as I can get the one I want off my other computer.) I added a Sites I Love page. I added a menu at the top with posts grouped by popular category, and I tweaked the colors and fonts. I don’t have everything exactly how I want it to look (the pictures are too big, the headings are too small…), but if I waited for perfection, we would be looking at the placeholder page forever.
This past Sunday was Mother’s Day, or Mothering Sunday, in Ireland. As we limped towards the weekend, I told Brad that all I really wanted for Mother’s Day was a healthy family. Thankfully everyone has fully recovered. I got some daffodils and we finally got out of the house for a walk at Phoenix Park. The air was cold and the light was flat, but we all needed some time outdoors. Perhaps, in the end, a little bit of forced downtime was good for all of us.