Humorous Moments

I’m a firm believer that if you take yourself or your life too seriously, you will be unhappy. Everyday in my life there are little moments that I have to choose how to react to. I chose laughter, giggling, smiling and sometimes shaking my head – or all of the above! Here are a couple of moments from yesterday:

Buddy, oh Buddy. Our loving and wonderful Golden Retriever just couldn’t help himself yesterday. He resisted as long as he could but finally he lost his will to resist the Rotisserie chicken! Dave and I had gotten distracted (imagine that with 3 kids 7 and under??) and hadn’t put all the dinner leftovers away. Simultaneously we heard and inquired about a strange noise. Sure enough, Dave goes in the kitchen and a leg and thigh had magically disappeared from the platter. I smiled and laughed with the image of our sweet dog paws up on the counter, head moving from one side to the other checking to see if he is being watched and then in a split second inhaling his prize. Surprisingly my husband took it very well. No screaming or cursing, as I expected. So tonight I’m cooking dinner again because there are no leftovers.

Uh oh! While waiting at the doctor’s office to have Eli’s ears checked, I hear my son say “uh oh Mommy, I had an accident.” Sure enough he was standing legs apart with both pants legs soaked. As I stood there for a second trying to assess what to do, I hear his name called. I don’t have a change of clothes with me and the doctor is now ready to see us. Well, what can you do? It’s a doctor’s office right? They aren’t afraid of nudity, right? So we go into the examining room and take off his wet pants and underwear and he becomes “naked bottom baby” at the doctor’s office. Of course the most fun was carrying him in the elevator, through the parking lot and into the car wrapped in my coat to cover his little naked bottom! I’m sure anyone who saw me thought I was the world’s worst Mom.

Life is good! There also incredibly sweet moments too. As he was laying in his bed waiting for me to come in to snuggle for a little bit, my naked bottom boy (no more) snuggled and said “now I can go to sleep Mommy because you are here.” Be still my heart!

What moments make you laugh?