Maddy has been venturing into new arenas in the food department, woot woot! We can say that our baby girl has graduated from her innocent, almost good smelling dirty diapers, (I use almost very loosely), to nasty, and menacingly disgusting ones! But for some days now she had been really constipated, so I did what any good mommy would do; I prayed for her to poop it out and gave her some prune juice. Two days later, after forgetting about my prayers for poo, I was going 100 miles per hour trying to get things done, I was out and about running errands with the family and I realized I had to change Maddy’s diaper. In my hurry run, run, run state, I put my baby girl on the back seat of the car and anticipated a two minute diaper change. We were in a hurry to get home so I was taking all the shortcuts possible on this diaper change. I took off Maddy’s overalls and low and behold what did we have…….. a whole lot of prune induced poo! Lots and lots of it ladies and gents. It seriously took me about 23 minutes to change her. After having caca all up in my fingernails my mind was just reeling. I was officially pissed at Doug, for whilst I was battling the world’s most nauseating diaper, he’d been eating IN- N- OUT in the front seat of the car with the greatest of ease, (pretty gross huh? Considering I was yelling, “Eww, oh gosh this is disgusting, eww, oh no it’s on my hand! Ewwww now it’s in my EYE!” AND the guy just kept eating). I finished and threw Maddy in Doug’s arms and ran to the bathroom to wash my hands. I looked in the mirror and I saw the most desperate and flustered woman I’ve ever seen staring right back at me. Why in heaven’s name was I so upset, I got exactly what I prayed for. That got me thinking about life and how funny we can be with our precious time. When we’re going about our day and something unexpected happens that throws us for a loop, we get our panties in a bunch. Why do we think we have full control of what our day is going to be? Day after day we go about our business and have an idea of what our day might look like in the morning, but soon after brushing our teeth we realize that the “perfect” day we planned in our head just isn’t going to pan out exactly as planned. Why is there so much resistance from our part for events, mostly unpleasant ones, to happen to us when everything seems to be going smoothly? Why is it so hard to cope with our computer crashing, getting a flat tire, or getting pooped on by a big ol’ bird? In my case why was it that I was so upset for getting what I had prayed for. My prayer didn’t go like this,” Dear God, please help Maddy not be constipated. Help her poop, but please, only do it when it’s extremely convenient for me. If you don’t, I’ll throw a fit, you know me, I’ll do it. Thank you God. “
We get upset but what we should be doing is finding the blessing in these disruptions and seeing them as an opportunity to get closer to God, after all he is the only one that can help us through all the poo in our lives. We can also see it as a blessing. What if in those 23 minutes I was changing Maddy’s diaper we avoided a car accident…. You just never know. God does things for a reason. So, as you are going through your day and you find yourself with little annoying “distractions”, take a moment and breathe because I know how annoying they can be, and then just roll with it, think of how much happier you’d be day to day if you didn’t make these little nuisances dictate your joy. Think about it! Stay blessed and stay saucy everyone!!
P.S. For the record, Doug was super hungry and he needed to eat really bad and the diaper change didn’t really take me 23 minutes. I was only mad at him because I was mad that I was the one changing the diaper and not him. Not his fault at all. Love you lovie! J
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