Monday morning blues

I'm in a MUCH better mood than I was last time I posted, but this day hasn't started off so hot either...

The dogs slept in our bedroom last night. That's not such a huge deal to me, except for the fact that I have apparently developed an allergic reaction to one of them over the past year. Whenever they are in the room, I notice that my nose starts itching a lot and the back of my throat feels tickly. Quite the ideal sleeping conditions. Also, one of them has a serious flatulence issue which is only annoying when they're in a closed bedroom with me while I'm trying to sleep. From 4am on, I kept waking up. It was mildly annoying, but it could have been worse.

I woke up at 5:20am. I had to drop off both kids since my husband has to get his car serviced. I'm stumbling around the room in the dark in an attempt to disturb my husband as little as possible. I'm putting my outfit together while getting the kids clothes together as well. My daughter started being slightly uncooperative which caused me to get annoyed. My volume increased somewhat which ended up waking up my husband anyway. By the time the kids and I leave the house at 6:25am, I'm pretty annoyed.

I drop off my son, and he is in tears. I HATE dropping him off so early in the morning, because there are so few kids there at that time. There are 10 year olds there with 2 year olds all in a little circle waiting on breakfast. It depresses me for some reason. The fact that my son began crying when I left was really tough.

Then, I drove all the way to Decatur to drop off my daughter at my mom's house. I was already annoyed and frustrated by that time. The traffic in Decatur is so utterly ridiculous that I just threw in the towel. It takes more time to get from my mom's house to the interstate exit, than it does to get from the interstate exit to CNN. That's just not right.

Actually, once you exit at Spring Street to get to CNN, you're back in traffic hell again. I was so irritated by then, that the fact that my blouse was missing its center button only drove me a little more insane than it normally would have. I kept telling myself to stay positive and stay thankful.

I got to the office and realized that I had COMPLETELY forgotten about something I was supposed to take care of first thing this morning. Wasn't even on the radar. Thankfully, that all worked out for the best anyway...I needed to put that task off a little longer.

I need to reevaluate how I deal with things. This was an amazing weekend, and I have allowed a few minutes of frustration to almost push me into a very bad place emotionally. But, amazingly, two happy things just occurred to me. First of all, this is only a four-day week for me; the family and I are leaving for Mobile this weekend. Secondly, I just realized that I have an extra shirt in my trunk. That was definitely God's morning reminder to me to focus on being thankful, even during the bad times. He always takes care of the rest. :-)