Do you do what you say you will?

This has not been the best of weeks. I have been able to keep myself and the rest of the family on schedule only because I have been putting everything into my planner. Today was the first day where our schedule did not have 3 to 4 different items for the day. I say this only to illustrate the fact that I understand what a calendar is, and how they work. I was having a pretty good day, until this afternoon.

For some odd reason I follow directions. When I get told to put things on the calendar I do so. I had made several phone calls over the course of the week and was waiting for call backs. When someone calls me back and says one thing, and then I call to confirm, and tell them that I will be sending out an e-mail, the natural thing to expect is that I WILL DO WHAT I JUST SAID I WOULD. Of course I then get told that my e-mail was wrong, that another person "was waiting to send the e-mail" and that I don't double check my facts.

MAC has been working really hard at ACE and had another "Fantastic" day today. I owe her a breakfast-on-the-go tomorrow. You can bet she's going to hold me to that promise! When I got home today she and a friend from down the road were outside playing. She didn't come back in until after 6.  She was asked to do a picture for the ACE program.  She said she would, it is a wonderful anime drawing that she even gave some color to.

We teach our children to do what they say they will. They get in trouble when they don't. Why is it that as an adult, I now get in trouble at work for doing what I say I will?