This was my Facebook status this morning:
Well,
I have failed to get my kids out the door on time today, failed to
remind my kid to bring her instrument so I didn't have to bring it to
her, failed to bring the right cards so I could get gas and groceries
while I was out to deliver the instrument, and even failed to order
correctly at Starbucks.
After blessing my mom with a cup of
unwanted coffee at work (she was happy about one of my failures), I
decided to return to my bed for a quick power nap so I could pretend
that my day was starting over (don't judge, it makes me feel better).
Gas, groceries, and kids. I can do this. Really.
I got the nap. As someone commented, I really needed it. This is the rest of the day so far.
I got up, went to get gas, and someone tried to steal my wallet while I was pumping. It was only my quick reaction time (which I wouldn't have had without the nap) that kept me from losing my wallet. I grabbed the guy's hand and he dropped the wallet and ran. I didn't go after him, I just didn't care because I had my wallet still anyway.
I went to Walmart to get groceries so I could be on time to pick up the girls, got my things, and thought I was going to be early when I saw the lines...that didn't happen. Two lines were open, then they kept opening the 20 items or less lanes and couldn't figure out why the lines were still long...duh, the people in line had a lot of items. I didn't start yelling like the man in front of me because I had the nap and was totally thankful at that moment that I had the money to pay for the stuff because my wallet wasn't stolen. When the lady finally came to open a regular line (after they opened 6 of the 20 items or less lanes), the man in front of me who was yelling had already put a couple of things up and she took me first, making me able to get out of there just in time to hit the traffic for the school parking lot, but I was okay.
I got to the parking lot and of course, there were several people double parked even though there were a few legal parking spaces available...I just couldn't get to them because of those who were double parked. One lady decided that she needed to get in front of me really bad because I was unreasonably stopping for the kid crossing in the crosswalk that she couldn't see from her position. She scraped my car on the way by, the parent next to the kid grabbed her out of the way as this crazy woman zipped out of the parking lot. I did not ram into her car like I wanted to because I had my nap and I was just thankful that everyone was okay...except for a little scrape on my car. With a prayer of thanks and a request that her car looked way worse than mine, I parked my car and walked away.
I walked into my girl's school to meet them at our usual spot when Zoe's teacher stopped me to complain that Zoe didn't have one of the 500 pieces of homework that she sent home signed (okay, maybe not 500, but it seems like that) and she had to change her color card. My daughter is pretty sure that she is a rotten kid because of this stupid rule in that class...so I decided to have Zoe take out her homework even though it wasn't done yet and I took out a pen and signed every piece. I did not yell at the teacher for breaking my daughter's spirit over a rule that makes no sense at all. I simply signed everything before it was done, though Zoe kept telling me that I'm supposed to sign it after. You see, she's a rule follower, not defiant as the color card system is supposed to try to prevent. I signed the rest of her calendar for the month because it is supposed to be signed every month as well. I'm pretty sure she will say something to me about it later, but hopefully I will be on a better day.
I didn't yell at her because I had that nap.
The day is not over yet, but I'm still thankful even when the stuff around me looks bad. All because of one 20 minute nap.
