You can’t change the direction of the wind, but you can adjust your sails to reach your destination.

I had planned on getting up early and writing my post today.

I also planned on all the kids cooperating, and sleeping kind of late.

And I planned on my husband being around to help out.

I planned on bringing Number 3 to the last day of his last long course meet,

going for a run during warm up,

and then sitting, relaxing, and watching him swim.

I did not plan on Number 5 waking up in the middle of the night and having a full blown, hysterical crying fit because she decided she needed a band aid,

and I didn’t plan on not being able to get back to sleep for over an hour.

I certainly did not plan on all my children waking up before 6:30 and needing band aids, diaper changes, clothes changes, milk and help with underpants.

Simultaneously.

And finally,

I really did not plan that some psycho woman, would accuse my husband of stealing her garage doors,

and go down to the police station to file a report,

so that he would have to go to the police station at 7 a.m. this morning to talk to the officer who is “on the case.”

Nope.

This is not the morning I envisioned when I went to bed last night.

No,

nothing,

and I mean nothing,

has gone the way I wanted it to today.

I started to turn it into the end of the world.

And I started to take it out on the kids.

And when I realized what I was doing,

yelling at a 3-year-old about underpants and chocolate milk and the 5 million things I needed to do before 8:00,

I remembered the post I wrote about Number 4 and her cast.

And making lemonade out of lemons.

The story I wanted to write about this morning can wait.

I can rearrange my schedule.

I will find a way to fit the run in.

Every problem has more than one solution.

I can take a few deep breaths,

as well as some of my own advice,

and find the silver lining in this morning.

Inhale.

Exhale.

And start over.

You know what?

That feels much better.

I can make this day suck.

Or I can make it really good.

Being crabby is tiring.

I’ll take good 🙂

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