Laugh it off!

"Mommy are you ok, you're crying"
"Yes Sara I'm fine, just frustrated and nothing is going in my favor"
"You've got us and I love you to the moon and back"

I've got some amazing children.
I can't pretend things are always wonderful and smooth sailing.  I stray away from the things I know are truth and doubt the blessings I've been given out of my own foul mood and insecurities. At the end not a single thing that got under my skin mattered even slightly.

A super wonderful friend of mine who came into a ready made family (adjusted smoothly and extra happy I might add) was telling me this evening about her daughter clogging the toilet up twice in less then a month. She's an amazing woman who very rarely complains about ANYTHING, so the fact that she mentioned it at all was very significant. I laughed it off and said welcome to mommihood. I could have said something more encouraging after I thought about it.

Just a couple weeks I had one of those moments where I look back now and go geez I was a jerk and seriously what was I even mad about? I had woken up on the wrong side of the bed extra early, my two year old was also irritable, my 3 year old refused to go to the potty like a big girl, everyone coped an attitude, the pretty well trained puppy peed in his crate, the baby peed down my side after I had just changed, I burned breakfast and was running late for my errands. Of course my cell phone would not stop going off and I felt compelled to respond to my electronic leash. If I could of laughed it off it would have improved the day for everyone, besides I didn't really want to wear that shirt anyway and no one even noticed Thomas wiped peanut butter in my hair. None of it mattered and we lost a day together that will never come back.