Good Intentions

Have you ever had good intentions go terribly awry? Seems to happen to me on a daily basis. Last week I tried to help my husband from making, what I thought, would be a very bad business decision. I didn't want him making a mistake by reacting on emotions and not using his business sense. Yeah, that worked real well. Made for a very long weekend. Just this week I try to use my business side and not emotions and provide assistance. Yet again, that went over really well. At this point I can't win. I always seem to forget the Ames Factor. Whenever you think something will work well, trust me, it won't. It's ironic that right after my good intentions had just gotten revealed as being not helpful, my son had one of his own. Sat down at the table to eat lunch. When I got up I wondered why my pants were all wet. Daughter down for a nap so no one else was around. Those of you with pets, especially old ones, will always jump to worse case scenario. I asked my son if he knew why the chair was sopping wet and he looked up at me with these big brown puppy dog eyes and said that the chair was dirty and he was trying to clean it. As I stand there with soaked pants all I could think of was "good intentions..." and what good timing. Just had to laugh and give him a hug. Sometimes in life that's all you can do...