Good Day, Bad Day

You know the kind of day, (insert your name here) Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day kind of day.  Starts with oversleeping, realizing you don't have time to make coffee, realizing your put on a blue sock and a black one, forgot to bring your lunch and then some idiot decides to drive in front of you at warp GRANDPA speed and now you are even later than you were when you over slept.

The kind of day that starts with dropping everything you touch, forgetting some part of your morning routine that is CRUCIAL, like brushing your teeth or putting on deodorant.  You finally make it out to the car and the tank is below empty and payday isn't until tomorrow!

It is so easy to feel these days, really feel them, and remember them for what they are.  It is easy to talk about these days and tell people you A: woke up on the wrong side of the bed, B: Nothing is going right today, C: Should have stayed in bed today or D: ALL OF THE ABOVE.  It is also easy to complain and whine about these days and everyone you come in contact with completely understands because they have had these kind of days too.

What about the OTHER kind of days?  I am not talking about the I won the lottery day, or even an I won a small fry from McDonald's kind of day.  I am not talking about big achievements like a raise, promotion or getting a new job, not weddings and graduations and parties and fun events, just the normal, smooth, things made me smile today, kind of day.

Today I had one of those.  One of those smoothly going, yet nothing super special, put a smile on my face day.  We got up knowing it was gonna be busy.  Jon has to travel this evening and Henry not only had school but after school practice as well as boy scouts and I gotta get him to do the homework and eat dinner sometime while all getting to bed early enough for school and his math and spelling tests tomorrow. Whew!

The kids made it surprisingly easy to get ready and out the door this morning and Henry even got to wear his new sweater with the skulls all over it (thinking positive despite the drastic weather changes).  Callie and I stopped by Jon's work so she could see him, as she missed him by minutes this morning.
Callie and I played with her dolls and animals and threw a birthday party for her Puppy Pinky.  We then left to go look around at some winter wardrobe for her, she has near nothing in her size and I think I mentioned the weather change earlier (see above).

It was a pouring rain day today but we trudged out and hit up St. Vincent DePaul.  I have a need to dig through that store often because they have cool furniture and nick knacks that I love to play around with and sometimes you can find a good deal on certain things.  I wasn't expecting much, which made me even more excited about what I found!  Callie and I got started in little girl clothes and hit the jackpot!  We found 5 long sleeve dresses from Old Navy, Children's Place, Osh Kosh etc...  We found 2 pair of pants, a skirt and a fleece lined sweater coat too.  Everything was cute and in good shape and blah blah blah NOTHING was over $1.49! What did she say??  Yes, I spent less than $20 and ended up with nearly half a wardrobe and one happy smiling little girl.  We had so much fun shopping and we spent forever there just looking and digging and finding goodies.

After St. Vinnies we headed out to lunch with Jon, which is a blessing in itself that he works around here and can take a lunch break with us every day.  It was also a blessing because, with no warning from the sanitation folks, they flushed out sewer stuff and filled our home with the lovely scent of POOP/SULFUR just a few hours before, making it impossible to eat there!  So we Skyline scarfed down our lunch and enjoyed the sounds of Callie singing her ABC's for us too.

When it came time to pick Henry up from school, after his practice, she was in a grouchy mood.  I wasn't sure how the rest of this evening would go, but one look at Henry and she was all smiles.  He ran down the steps and gave her a huge hug and kiss and told her he missed her.  We walked out to the car and gave him the gift we picked out for him, a conch shell that was pointy and rough, to counterbalance the smooth one he has of the same size.  He was thrilled!

We came home and Callie wanted to show him her new clothes.  Now most boys would be like, "what the, NO WAY!", but Henry was enthusiastic with a comment for every piece of clothing she took out of that bag.  "That is cute, Callie!"  "Yeah, that's my girl!"  "A girl at school has that same dress."  "You are gonna look so pretty in that, Callie Anne."

We did homework and he aced his practice test.  He let Cal do the puppeting for the Little Red Hen, while he read us the story.  No complaints and plenty of sharing.  Then, the exact moment that I thought, this is one of those days, happened.  Henry announced that he earned a prize at school today for his good listening and behavior and he pulls out a toy for his sister.  He worked hard to earn that toy and the first person he thought of, was Callie, and how she would love that toy.
 
One of those smooth, easy, making me smile kind of days and I wanted to share it with you and remind you to look at your own days with new eyes.  Sometimes those uneventful days are just the perfect kind of days and honestly they are the majority of our "norm" and I hope yours too.