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What to do when you are having "One Of Those Days"?

Embrace this wonderful journey called life, weather in absolute chaos or in harmony, there are many beautiful lessons to learn and grow from. 

 Yesterday was challenging. As a parent, don't you love it when one of your children wakes you up in the morning? Clearly I was not ready for the day, but hey what do you do? You just tell your son to go out to the living room and read a book, mommy will be right out🤓. 
As the day went on I noticed my patience level was below zero. My poor hubby began to walk on egg shells. My hormones were out of whack and I had lots of things to do to reset our home.

I'm trying to be all efficient, but when you have kids things can quickly get out of hand. You clean up one area, then you turn around and the other area that you just cleaned up is a mess again. Thankfully I have the best husband in the world, who took the kids out for breakfast so I could focus on the home.

Time flew and I tried to accomplish a lot in a short amount of time. I went down to the basement to do the laundry and forgot my money card to get started. I came back up tried to put the kids down for a nap and all craziness broke loose. My sweet baby girl Zoe thought it would be cool to be extra defiant. She was giving me a fight to change her diaper and kept saying no to going to bed. After two rounds of discipline she finally cooperated. After all the fiasco, I put my son down for his nap. While we were talking we had a head collision that knocked me down. I was in so much pain I just started crying. My son must've thought I'm playing, and he just busted out laughing whole heartedly. That made me cry even more. After that incident I crawled out of the room and just took a little power nap. I was hungry, so I made myself a snack only to drop the entire salsa jar on the floor. 
Oh what a wonderful day.

My husband noticed that I needed a break, so he told me to go somewhere for two hours and do something refreshing. Yeeeeeeessssss!💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽Hallelujah 🙌🏽. 

I packed my computer, magazines and walked out the door. After a few blocks, I realized I'm actually not feeling good. I was wondering if I had a mild concussion from the head collision I had with my son 3 hrs ago. I was like, of course, here I get some time to myself and now I can't even enjoy it because I'm not feeling well. Thankfully with today's technology you get to video chat with your doctor. After explaining my whole scenario with her, she calmed me by saying that I should be OK but I do need to look out for certain signs. If they appear, than I need to go to the ER 👀. She advised me to do something relaxing. So instead of going to a coffee shop to write, I just went to get a pedicure. That made all the difference.

I'm writing this, because I wanted you to know, no matter how crazy your day starts, you can find ways to end it well. In the midst of all those crazy moments I shed tears, I was frustrated, I was sad, and I was tired. But I also felt loved and cared for by my husband and kids. It's OK to have some tough moments, but it's not OK to stay there. So in every situation I always try my best to find the lessons I need to learn. 

My daily challenges are, what do I do when curveballs come at me? What's my attitude? How do I bounce back? How do I deal with them? Will I react negatively, be grumpy or complain? Will I shake it off and make the best out of the situation? Will I blame or give the benefit of the doubt. Will I be mean or choose to be kind? 
For me it is good to evaluate myself on my emotional and spiritual maturity. It's also great to have accountability on these matters. Whatever I face or go through, I want to make sure I'm growing in my behavior and attitude. 

So if you, wether a mom, a wife, or a single lady had a bad day today, know that there are many in the same boat. And I'm sending you a big hug. I'm lifting you up in prayer. Today is a new day. And God promises that His mercies are new every morning. 

 Blessings,
Nicole Crews
P.S.These two make me smile. I hope they bring a smile to your face as well. 

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