It ain't Mother's Day anymore!

Ten ways you can tell Mother's Day is over until next year:

1. Your lovely sunset trip brought an unexpected "gift": ticks! Ew! (Fortunately, only the grown-ups seem to be the victims. But we're checking over & over in true KM paranoid fashion.)
   
2. Sometime during the night, a shelf in the laundry room snapped, fell, and knocked a large hole in the wall. Oh yeah, and you know where you stash all of the cleaning supplies, rags, extra shopping bags and any other random stuff you'd like to hide? Yeah, it's that shelf, and it has dumped it's contents all over a clean basket of laundry.
3. Every time you reach for the dustpan, a dog eats something out of the dirt pile.
   
4. The potty-training toddler who insists on getting down from the toilet (because she's done, don't you know?) pees on your kitchen floor.
   
5. You can only find one coupon insert in your Sunday paper, and half of the pages involve mail order plants or magic arthritis gloves.
6. Little Sister's favorite morning activity is pinching people.
7. Little Sister's second favorite morning activity is aggravating dogs.
8. The (naked) princess dolls in the living room are becoming nearly as high-maintenance as your children. "Snow white needs a blankie." (How about we just keep her dress on, huh?)
   
9. You keep heating up your cup of coffee and then leaving it in the microwave, forgetting all about it until you go to do something else several minutes later, at which point you start the process all over again.
10. You're pretty sure there is a floor to your minivan, but you can't seem to find it.

The truth is that while I had fun with this list, I really can't complain. Little Sis slept 'til after 7 again this morning, and Hubby kept the girls occupied while I cleaned up the laundry room mess. The truth is, I've needed to clean out that room for a loooong time (and I found lots of things I didn't know I had!) Little Sister did have an accident, but then she went #2 on the potty! The girls are content to have a lazy morning, so I'm getting a few things done, and I just looked at the clock and realized it was nearly 11!

It's not so bad, after all. It's all about perspective. I've been reading an awesome book/Bible study by Lysa Terkeurst in the mornings that has helped me adjust my perspective tremendously.

I'll try to upload some photos from our trip to the battlefields last night. Right now, I have to heat up my coffee again...