then i'm going to make a "jump to conclusions" mat and wear 37 pieces of flair to express myself

Ok, now what? Seriously. WHAT?

The day started off innocuously enough, and nothing major went awry, unlike yesterday. Rob and I were playing with Blake on the bed when we were all still waking up, and one playful push rolled the kid one too many times, right off the bed and into the small, metal, sharply cornered nightstand. It's a miracle he hit the back of his head and not his face. It's a miracle it didn't open up in a big mess of a bleeder. It's a miracle we haven't been called into the authorities for the plethora of new bruises on our careless and clumsy son who has unfortunately carelessly clumsy parents. But that was yesterday.

Today? Today, I have not discovered that any of my immediate family is in danger of disease, pestilence, or warfare. I have not lost a major body part or expensive dear item. It's just been an oddly offbeat day where lots of little things went wrong. So here are my boos (boo hoos?) for the Monday:

• The weird pain in my back that makes it hard to move certain ways. Not sure how I got it, not sure how to fix it, made working out impossible, and I have to save the money I'd otherwise spend on the chiropractor on...
• Fixing Blake's glasses. I got in to pick him up from gymnastics, and the teacher said, "He came without one of his lenses, right?" Um, NO. No, he did not. So the teachers and Blake dutifully walked the floor, trying in vain to find the small clear piece of plastic that had jumped out at some point during class. We don't have a back-up pair and will now be forced into buying one earlier than we'd planned, simply because any setback in our treatment of his amblyopia is a bad deal. We'll patch him constantly for as long as it takes to get the spare pair, then send his originals out to both update the prescription and get a new lens in there.
  
• Trying to get three small children to nap when I only have two possible rooms to put them in. Blake skipped his nap in favor of the twins getting one, which means I'll now be skipping the Dave Ramsey class tonight in order to get him in bed at a reasonable hour because we'll both be endlessly grumpy at 10:00 pm if I don't. Turns out a four-year-old can't really sleep on the couch during the daytime with Mom in the corner on the computer. Who knew?!
• Hoping to work efficiently and cleanly today, only to get kind of stuck on a small bit of administration stuff that took all my time, so I had to try (HAH!) to work while everyone was awake and playing.
  

That's about it. Like I said, nothing big. I babysat the twins today, so maybe the added ARGH factored in with the added noise and irregularity of the day. Can't really tell. What I liked about today (because I have to be fair):

• Hearing Smith tell Mason, "My back hurts. Bad." Just like I'd told him mine did.
• Hearing Blake tell me, "Just ignore it, Mom. Just ignore it," when the boys were tuning up over a toy and I was trying to talk them down off the ledge. Just like I'd told him when they had been intentionally teasing him in the "Yes, it is." / "No, it isn't" kind of way.
• Having the same person who called me to account for my temper encourage me to control it in ways that are truly gentle and convicting and convincing.
• Having the missing lens be on the side we'd have to patch anyway, so at least Blake can kind of see out of the eye that needs it most.
• Griping about my day to my friend in "my way" and having her laugh and tell me how funny I am. Even when I'm a whiner, I can still laugh and get a laugh without it being a bitter one.
• Rob's new job jitters were really awfully adorable this morning. I still have to call him (at work, since he's still without a cell) to see how it's going.
• Deciding that I can maybe make it to the video portion of the Dave Ramsey lesson, then leave immediately thereafter to preserve both Blake's rest and my commitment as much as possible without too much sacrifice on either end.
• Pumpkin butterscotch cookies with a cup of tea. Because at least it's not beer.

See how I'm learning?!