Another Super Good Day

Things seem to come in clusters for us sometimes. Like, when it's bad, it's BAD...and it seems to stay that way for a while. This happened to us last week. Tuesday, all heck seemed to break lose with every.single.person.in.our.home getting a nasty cold, Preslie cutting 2 (yes, t-w-o!) molars within 24 (crying and whining filled) hours, the toilet on the hall bathroom going on the fritz, money troubles...and it just kind of went down hill from there. I was just about ready to jump ship by the weekend.

Then, out of the blue, the good comes...and it's SUPER GOOD. We're currently on the upswing, thank heavens! We're all pretty much well, the weather has been unseasonably warm and beautiful, my house doesn't look tooooo terribly much like it's been hit by a tornado and everyone is in a good mood. We had a play date yesterday that we both enjoyed. Oh, and the toilet is fixed. Woo-hoo! (The money troubles are still lingering but I'm not gonna let that spoil this little happy cluster. ;p)

Today has been one of 'those' days...not the bad kind, but those extra-super-good ones that I fantasized about before I had a child. A day full of fun stuff just for the two of us where nothing really goes wrong and we just get to spend time just enjoying being a mama and a kid.

We played blocks in the middle of the living room floor in our pajamas.

We brushed our teeth and hair together and played dress-up.

We made lunch and ate it picnic style on a blanket in the backyard, complete with a little leftover Halloween candy (chocolate, of course!) for dessert.

We got said chocolate on our face and hands and clothes and didn't worry about the mess.

We made piles of leaves, then took our shoes off and buried our feet.

We filled buckets and pans and such with leaves...

and had just as much fun dumping them out as we did picking them up.

We laid on our picnic blanket and watched the wind blow leaves off of our favorite tree.

We sang 'The Itsy Bitsy Spider' about 138 times...in a row.

Now, my chocolate-faced, leaf crunching, picnic partner is taking a well deserved nap and I'm prepping things for dinner...and I can't help but feel so blessed to have had another super good day together. It still amazes me how far we've come and how...well...good things are now. Days like this give me hope and encourage me as a parent...and definitely must go into the memory bank to be pulled out when illness comes back around...or the toilet breaks again...or when we run out of clean underwear and I can't seem to do anything right.

But for now, for today...we're super good. Hope you are, too.