Every now and then, things happen. Things that could very easily annoy you, make you upset, or send you into a spiraling rage (okay...hopefully not the last one..). You can either let it bother you and ruin a perfectly good day OR you can turn that frown upside down and smile your cares away (if you're seriously doing this...look at #5 a little more closely). Here are some events that have either actually happened in my life, or I've thought about; maybe you've come across similar scenarios?
1. Your daughter takes everything (and yes..I mean everything. "look mommy! I'm so pretty! Can I wear this to church?) out of all of your drawers and throws the contents through-out the room- Finally you can get organized! You really needed to go through all of your stuff and organize it anyway...she's just helping you get a jump on it!
2. Your son poops in the bathtub- Can you say Spring Cleaning! (in more ways than one) Now you'll have a nice sparkling clean bathtub (hopefully you would clean it out...this also applies your daughter accidentally "missing" the toilet and to fruit loops, apple juice, and various other foods and condiments being spread all over the kitchen floor).
3.Colicky baby- Au contraire, mon frère: Jazzercise! It's how I lost all of my baby weight! (and if you say "all?" Joel...I will smack you).
4. Eating out with toddlers- Now you don't have to wait until "tomorrow" to start your diet! After playing roughly a million rounds of "fetch mommy" and chasing them, you can't manage to take a bite. By the time things are somewhat settled (meaning you may or may not have one in a headlock while the other one is double knotted into his high chair-because you'll inevitably get the only high chair that happens to be missing it's little buckle do-hickey) and you manage to lift your fork to your mouth, your hubby's already finished AND frustrated (which means he wanted to leave 10 minutes ago). So, at this point you promptly get a to-go box...but let's be honest ladies...do you ever really eat the leftovers? Or do they stay in the fridge taunting you and leaving yet another mess to clean up?
5. Going crazy and needing to be institutionalized- Finally! Alone time!! You don't have to COOK! You don't have to CLEAN! And think of all the SLEEP! Can you say Heaven on Earth? (so this one hasn't actually happened...yet)
See what an optimist I am?
Update~ I read the last one...and I don't think the "alone time" would be considered looking on the bright side. Maybe for a little while it would be nice to be able to breathe with out someone right there all.the.time, but I think that ultimately that is the saddest thing I can think of. Being away from my kiddos would pretty much suck...I can't even think of a bright side to not having them with me-always. That's just the way I like it (as exhausting as it can be sometimes).
3 comments:
I'm thinking Erma Bombeck. You have the knack!
you are a good writer ruth! I had fun today my kids are loving their new jammies (although they both fought hard over the robot ones!) Brody won (shock)
I love the optimism! I actually liked the alone time one (although I agree, it would only be great for about a week - but what a nice week it would be :). I loved reading all your situations because they are so true, what a fun way of looking at things.
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