Perspective

There is a quote in a book I recently read that really helped me to keep things in perspective today. It says, "Can you see the power emotion has to distort our outlook? Makes you wonder, did you have a bad day, or did you make it a bad day?"

With that in mind, here is a run down of my day beginning Wednesday night.

1. Derrick gets home from work and informs me that tomorrow on his day off he has to go in for a meeting. Under normal circumstances this would be no problem but I have my post-op appointment from having my wisdom teeth out the week before and it will cost $75 if we cancel.

2. I go to get my cell phone that has been charging all day to call my mom and ask if she can watch Melody in the morning. It still has a low battery. Huh? Maybe something is wrong with the outlet so we plug it in somewhere else.

3. This morning I grab my cell phone to head out the door...it beeps low battery at me!

4. The dentist wants me to schedule a cleaning for today. Derrick assured me he would be home by 10 so I make it for 11:45.

5. It is 11:20 and Derrick is not home!

6. I frantically try to figure out what to do with Melody. Thankfully there is a family from church who have a little girl the same age as Melody so I call them up. I was in such a hurry I didn't even have time to think about the idea that I had only left her one other time with anyone but family and that was in Washington where she had Sarah and Zephrah (my best friends girls) with her. Thank you Viki for being willing to help!

7. The dentist informs me that I have about $250 in dental work that needs to be done. Where are we going to find that money?

8. Derrick finally gets home and we decide to go bowling. We have been bowling several times as a family and Melody usually really enjoys herself, but today she looked like this the whole time..

She cried the whole hour we were there unless she was drinking Mommy's smoothie. She had one of her own that was the same as mine, however anything but Mommy's was unacceptable! At least she shared some of it with me!

9. My cell phone still won't charge. Even the people at Verizon can't figure out what is wrong so we end up buying new cell phones. We go at around 7pm and Melody is usually in bed around 7:30 so she was tired and cranky which did not make the phone buying experience very enjoyable for Mommy and Daddy. She had a blast playing with all the phones though!

All day I couldn't stop thinking about the quote from the book. It really helped me keep things in perspective so that what chould have potentially been a "no good, very bad day" was simply a day met with and few bumps along the way! So maybe it is possible that we don't have bad days we make some days bad by the emotional reactions we have to things that occur throughout our day! I guess that is something we can all ponder! Hope your day was much better than mine!