Mama Said There'd Be Days Like This

If you have a rough night where one of your children decided to wake up every twenty minutes from 8:30 to midnight and the other one from 12:30 to 2:45 am (and neither one was sick) then you may not be in the best mood when dawn cracks and you hear someone padding down the hallway toward your room saying, "I have to pee, can I watch a show?"

Then while you are rushing through breakfast, trying to get to church on time, and you are faced with this:

You may decide to give up the fight entirely and head to the freezer in search of the old bottle of vodka that must be hiding in there somewhere between fish sticks and other healthy treats.  But on your way to the freezer, the smell of cat poop overwhelms your senses, so you might be forced to turn around and clean up the cat litter before one of your delightful kitties decides to start urinating on your comforter (again).

So at 8:50 am, after you have officially declared this day to be "a pisser" and you are up to your elbows in cat turds and already going to be very late for church, you turn around and see this:

Then you might feel the clouds part and the sun starts to shine through.  Yes, you may think, I can handle this day.  And while you may have arrived at church a full twenty minutes after service started, seeing this on the way home may convince you that only can you handle it, you are going to smile today and enjoy your little blessings.

(By the way, I know this picture portrays me as pale with a double chin, Marina looks a little crazy, and there is a giant dog covered in socks in the background, but I like it anyway.)