It was one of “those” days. Seriously, it was bad. I absolutely failed at just about every single thing that makes me a “mom” today. Here’s how it all began…It all started over the weekend…the kids were still trying to bounce back from their 4th round of illnesses since Christmas and the onstant coughing is all you hear in our house – ALL NIGHT LONG…it’s never-ending and I’m serious, it 
goes on all night long. But, I digress…
Somehow, I’ve managed to stay semi-healthy since Christmas and have only gotten really sick with the stomach flu for a week, along with my youngest (and that was not fun). We have had pink eye, conjunctivitis, stomach flu, coughs, colds, for months now and it very slowly makes the rounds causing the “ick”to stretch on for weeks….by this past weekend I had absolutely had E-N-O-U-G-H of it. I needed a mommy break from everything – the house, the cold weather, the coughs and especially from the kids.
The weekend just didn’t go like we had planned, kids were still coughing and I started to notice on Sunday night that my throat was starting to ache a bit, but it was Day Light Savings and therefore we had lost an extra hour or sleep…I kept hoping I wasn’t getting sick, but by Monday, I was really dragging. By the time I woke up that morning, I had a very serious sinus headache… the cold was coming on…and I was so tired.
Besides feeling crummy, Monday morning started out ok…hubby and I got up early, did our T25 workout workout, made my coffee, did my daily Bible Study and had breakfast hot and ready for all the kids when they got up at 7am. But, the headache persisted. I got kids to school without incident – phew!
My youngest and I then headed to a friend’s house for a playdate and really enjoyed our time. The day really started to take a turn for the worse after lunch. I was really starting to feel crummy and knew I needed to take a little nap when the other two were napping. Napping is such a relative term in my house these days. My 5 year old daughter always asks to watch a movie instead of taking a nap and my 3 year old usually sits in his room opening and closing the door over and over so you can hear the squeak it makes. All of this is fine and dandy when I’m not trying to take a little nap myself, but that squeak sure makes it hard to actually fall asleep. Today, I somehow managed to close my eyes for probably a whole 20mins, but did my kids sleep? Nope. Did that mean my afternoon felt like an eternity? Yep.
Since sleeping didn’t happen I got them both up and they played. That was nice actuall,y and I headed to my office to get in a hour or so of work before having to go pick up my son from school. I was pretty proud of how much work I accomplished in an hour and then we all made a mad dash, and I literally mean dash, to get my older son. My youngest likes to push his little yellow shopping cart in a full sprint the half mile to school! It’s a sight to see – me and my daughter chasing him all the way down the road yelling the whole way to slow down, but his cart wheels are sooo loud, he can’t even hear us. Why I put myself through that torture day after day I have no idea.
So let’s continue on. We finally get to school in our usual record time and as soon as I got there, a good friend of mine politely reminds me that my oldest has Science Club after school and I really don’t need to pick him up for another hour. Oh A-W-E-S-O-M-E. And yes, I felt like the laughing stock of all the other moms standing there. Was lovely. Yep, I felt like a total idiot. Not only was I annoyed that I looked like a total idiot, but annoyed that I could have stayed home and got a little bit more work done, and even more annoyed that I forgot something so silly. Embarrassing to say the least and somewhat humbling for sure.
I realized then that I had left my phone right next to my computer and was pretty sure it was going off at home reminding me of Science Club. Since it was finally nice out, we decided to go to the 
park. On the way there, since is March, and there is a ton of melting snow, my youngest goes running through every mud puddle he can find and is soaked with wet mud in minutes. He’s crying because he’s cold, but still insists on going to the park. As soon as we get there he manages to fall off the side of the slide and takes a total face plant in soaking wet bark. It goes up his nose and in his mouth and he looks like a minion trying to scrape that gross jelly off his tongue (hours later he still had a nice strawberry on his face from his fall).
We headed home soon there after and what does he do again? Falls and totally loses his shopping cart into the street because he was running like his life depended on it…I’m telling you, he never learns. Anyways, we made it home in one piece and we still had to go get my son from Science Club. Because I didn’t have my phone, I really had no idea what time it was and we were already running late. Needless to say, by the time I packed up the kids and got them in the car along with all the library books (we had planned to hit up the library after school so my oldest could pick out the books he wanted and because a bunch of the books we had were due), we were only a few minutes late, but late enough that my oldest son was crying because he thought I forgot him. Oh awesome, good job mom. Oh and did I mention that today is my 13th wedding anniversary and I totally forgot to get my husband anything – even a card. Yep. Good job – again.
It was just one of those days when I felt like an epic failure on every front, as a mom, as a wife, as a business owner, etc. And I still feel like I’m getting sick. Thankfully it’s also one of those days when I’m reminded that the Lord is so much bigger than everything – me, all my problems, and all my failures. Thank goodness.
Psalm 40:5 came to mind since we had been studying it in my weekly Bible Study I attend:
“Many, Lord my God, are the wonders you have done, the things you planned for us. None can compare with you; were I to speak and tell of your deeds, they would be too many to declare.”
I’m sure you are wondering why I’m oogling about how amazing the Lord is when I’ve had such a rotten day? Well, it’s nice to know that someone has it all figured out and that He holds me in His hands and even though I feel like I failed all day long, I should focus instead on His wonderful works and how He has my life perfectly planned for me.
So, how was your day?
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