Planning for the Unplanned
"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless." Thomas Edison In yesterday's daily phone conversation, my mom was disappointed because I had not posted pictures of Knox and Ben in costume from Friday night trunk-or-treating. Let me preface the photos by explaining that Knox made his costume. He was Yoda, and he colored a sheet of yellow construction paper for his mask, making jagged holes by hand for eyes and mouth. He used curling ribbon to secure it to his head. He even picked out clothes that looked like something that Yoda would really wear-- under his Jedi robe. He did it all himself without instruction or help, AND he hated it. "It doesn't look at all like I wanted it to!" was his lament and then the question, "Why don't things turn out the way you planned?" That, my son, is the million-dollar question. I saved the mask before he scrapped it in the trash, and with the hel