Flexibility and work

Today, we get a call, bright and early from my daughter’s new pediatrician’s office letting us know there was a cancellation in the schedule tomorrow and could we please move our original appointment for our daughter’s annual well child from January 2009 to tomorrow.  Now, to put this into perspective, we don’t know this doctor yet, that’s part of the plan for this visit.  And now, we have a last minute switch.  Well, I am a fortunate woman because my husband is a fantastic stay at home dad but there’s a line here right?  What things are musts vs. nice to have when it comes to your child’s life?  It’s not a lack of trust in my husband, it’s really about wanting to be present for certain things.  So what do  I do… I frantically go through my afternoon schedule and beg for patience while I reschedule the block of time so I can be there.  Because it’s important to be present as part of the balance, in my view.  Some choices and tradeoffs have to made, I know that but this time, I was lucky, because I could manage the last minute reschedules – next time I might not be so lucky.  But for this week, I made it.