Adjusting To New Situations
Posted By Kathleen David on March 7, 2020
This will be a short- lived adjustment but Caroline is on vocal rest, so she is talking as little as possible. I have given her a white board and she can text me however we are communicating a lot the way we did before she learned to talk. It was an unwritten language that Caroline used to talk to me. I didn’t realize how little she was talking until it was pointed out by my mother because we were communicating without words.
I remember years ago seeing a t-shirt at a convention that said, “Life is what happens when you have plans” and that is true. Adjusting to what life tosses at you is part of being an adult. We start to learn that as children, and we have our parents to cushion some of it until we can handle it better. As an adult one adjusts and tries to move forward. That phrase has almost become my mantra.
There are times that we have to adjust to things that we don’t want and it really doesn’t seem fair. I have adjusted to health issues both mine and the family’s. None of us want any of these but we have to deal with them as they come. Getting older can be a maze.
I adjust when materials I have been using for years in my artwork are no longer being made or are ‘improved’. There are some that I miss a lot and others I have found better materials which have made my life easier. Polar fleece is one of those things that have improved my ability to create puppets. Glues are my biggest problem. I use foam for the skulls and structure and put those together with glue. There were a couple I had down to the second of knowing when it would tack up and I could put things together and know they would stick. The new and improved version has a learning curve and even with that it does not stick the way the previous version.
I am adjusting to the idea that Caroline will be off to college in a little over a year and she will be an adult in the eyes of the law. I had to adjust to her going to school when she was little. There were adjustments as she moved from elementary to middle to high school.
I am grateful for ironing boards.
Isn’t “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans” a John Lennon quote?