Life's Unpredictability

Routine? What routine? Planning ahead? Forget it. The last few weeks have been anything but routine and planning for the next day is nearly impossible. Welcome to parenthood as people say.
Routines are made to be broken, or is that rules? After I thought that early parenthood wasn't that tough, Alex caught his first cold. You first think "I can just give him some medicine and magically he will be all better". HA! Come to find out babies don't get medicine; they have to suffer through it without any of those wonderful decongestants or sleep aids. That would make anyone unhappy and Alex was definitely that. Now our routine gets flipped upside down and kicked out the front door. Months of hard work lost.
Being good parents, Emily and I wanted to comfort Alex as best we can so he can get over his "common" cold, and in doing so the routine was lost. Alex fed twice as many times, but half as much each time. His morning and afternoon naps turned into 30 minute cat naps every other hour, and the sleep/eat/wake turned into eat/sleep/eat/wake/sleep...and on. So the routine is a little off, you have to roll with the punches, right; that is what parenthood is all about.
As you can see I am a big supporter of routines and planning things in advance. Here is my big idea..."You are not in control and all the planning in the world can not protect you from life's unpredictability." What do I do?
First we need to get through this "common" cold that Alex has, which has now turned into a small weeze that we have to do breathing treatments for every 4 hours. That was not in the schedule! Breath in...breath out...breath in...actually I need to do that. Boy, does this stuff wear you out. Alex will get better soon, I know, but for the time being I just need to let life flow as it may. There is plenty of time to get things calmed back down and running at a normal pace. Plus, I know what a good routine looks like and it is always easier to go somewhere you have already been. But I can't do this alone. Emily is a wonderful Mom and I can't tell her enough how much I appreciate her and everything she does. So together we will get things back on track and one day when Alex is a teenager and he complains about the household structure, we will sit him down and explain to him that in the past when there was no structure all he did was cry.
Routine? I don't need no stink'in routine...right now!