Happy Monday! I can’t believe another week is here. I feel like I have been going 100 miles a minute recently, and I don’t see any slowing down in the near future. Things here are staying busy between regular school schedules, doctor appointments (and have I mentioned doctor appointments? There have been so many recently!), work schedules, getting our workouts in, etc. The to-do lists never end!
My Bad Day
Staying on the topic of busy days, does anyone else have a day where you wake up and not want to get out of bed because you know its going to be stressful and busy? That was my day on Friday. I just knew it was going to be a bad day and was ready for it to be over. And to be honest, if I went back to that moment knowing how the day played out, I probably would have never gotten out of bed.
(That’s also why I never got to Friday Features this past week. I hope to have one for this week!)
We all have have bad days. And I feel like sometimes it can be easy to complain about everything that went wrong during the day. And while there can be a problem with constantly thinking negative, I think it’s also important to accept that some days are just bad.
My Friday felt like it could have been part of a movie. We were running late to school, then all the doors were locked, when I made it to the doctor the parking lot was full and I had to park further away and run to the office. I came home and met more chaos. Then we rushed to the doctor where my daughter refused to go to the bathroom at first (she had a UTI and we needed to get a sample). Then we rushed to the gym where I worked in childcare. My kids were having meltdowns at this point, and it ended with Theresa biting Rebecca. We left the gym and went to pick up the medicine for Rebecca, only to find out it was at a different pharmacy. When we got to the correct one, it wasn’t ready yet and we’d have to wait about 20-30 minutes. It was 7pm…my kids hadn’t eaten dinner yet. I chose to leave and pick the medicine up in the morning. When we got home our neighbors dogs were outside in the yard (we live in a duplex and share a yard) so I had to force Rebecca in the yard while making sure they didn’t get out or jump on us (they’re bigger dogs and are still puppies so they want to play!). I finally got everyone in, fed them snacks and got them to bed. And I was just worn out.
Feel what you feel
It’s actually pretty laughable at this point, but in the moment it wasn’t funny. And I was not in the best mood towards the end of the day. I think while we are taught to find the silver lining in everything, it’s also important to understand that some days we will feel frustrated or disappointed, angry, sad, etc. And that’s ok. It’s part of our human nature, and if we deny ourselves the chance to grieve or feel what we need to feel, it’s not healthy.
I’m not saying to always focus on the negative (there were some really good things that happened on Friday too! ), just overall, it was a bad day.
God is Good
But I also wanted to share my experience with accepting the bad and still acknowledging that God is good. Despite the bad days. And when I started to focus on that fact, I felt my mood lighten!
It’s ok to have bad days. It’s ok to feel upset/angry/annoyed. But through it all, it also helps to remember that God is with you through it all. And he is the constant source of goodness in our lives. We can always count on that fact.
I hope you all have a great week- hopefully it will be a little less busy than mine 🙂
