Sunday, October 5, 2008

"Spilled Milk"

Hello All,
We all have those moments in our lives that aren't so funny when they happen, but we are able to laugh at them later. A little more rare than that are the times we can laugh while it's happening. This happened to me earlier this week. Steven had pulled his bottle of milk out of the fridge while I had it open so I decided to put him in his swing/highchair to feed him. There wasn't much left in the bottle so I took it, filled it up and gave it back to him. Not more than a minute later I heard a pop and looked over to find milk all down the front of him and in the swing and tray. "Oh crap! Steven!" He started crying I think mostly because he did quite know what happened. I took him out as fast as I could before it could soak all the way through, undressed him down to his onesie and wiped up the swing. While he was still whining, I filled the bottle back up, screwed the lid back on and just to make sure it was secure, pushed the bottom of the bag to let some of the air out. This caused the top to pop off again, this time only spilling about a third of the contents. At this point I decided to give up the bottle idea (after all he is quickly approaching 18 months) and switch the the sippy cup. I filled up the cup with yet more milk and while attempting to screw on the lid, it slipped out of my semi-wet hands, hit the edge of the counter and spilled all over the floor. "Dang it!" This was a little more than Steven could take. Not being properly comforted after the first mishap, he instantly burst into tears. It was at this point, that the phrase "Don't cry over spilled milk" came to my mind. At these times in our lives we have the choice to either laugh or cry and I decided to find the humor in this frustrating situation. Afterall, it was just milk. My only regret is that I didn't take a picture.

5 comments:

Joshua and Joy said...

I'm glad you could find the humor in this. When you have kids it seems like you have lots of days like this. Crazy messy things are always happening.

Unknown said...

Well Done sister. i think you got the conference message taken care of. Find joy huh?!! Even in spilt milk. Hopefully Steven did eventually get to drink some milk :o)

Becky said...

lol... I'm glad you found the good... with my hormones being all prego right now, I probably would have started to cry with Steven! You're such a good mommy!

Kedra Simpson said...

reminds me of one of the conference talks yesterday. Its good to laugh at life, because its too short to get mad! It would have been funny to see the pic!

Becky said...

lol... actually, I did start to cry a couple days after I left my last post I dropped my milkshake off the top of my car... and got it all over the parking lot, me, Kiersten, and the bottom of my purse. I just handed my daughter to my husband and closed the door so I could cry without stressing out my daughter. I still don't know why I was crying! Anyways... it would have been better to laugh about it!

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