Breathe deep

Today has required many deep breathes and for me to become thankful for little things. Today is a day I feel like a stuck at home mom. For instance, I am blogging to pass a few minutes in attempt to get my kids asleep. I want, need, yearn for a shower. A shower alone, without destruction and demolition by a set of twins. I need one for a multitude of reasons.

As I troll social media, I am reminded that we all do Thankfulness during November. I am going to bring some humor into it in February.

Today, I am thankful I bought the pet stain remover type of Resolve. Since my kids decided to be puppies and poop on the carpet, I feel vindicated for the extra expense. I am thankful for running warm water to clean previously stated poop off my son after he attempted to contact the rain God's in an Indian rain dance ceremony amongst said turds. I am thankful my daughter can say the word poop, as she alerted me to the situation when I thought they were asleep. Be afraid of the silence, they say. Should have been! And, I would suck if I didn't say I was glad to see the poop only on the carpet. As I sauntered to the door, I almost puked in my mouth at the prospect of poop art on the walls of a house that is up for sale. That would have been no bueno!

I am thankful for DVR so I can listen to some great shows over the chaos that is twins. I am thankful they don't fight over toys since a bar stool and a box seem to be their top items at the moment. I am thankful it is still cold-ish because I might actually get a heads up on a desired house tour and be able to clear the poop smell out of the kids room. And the cold means my Diet Coke in the fridge is cold and I can grab one fast, as I feel myself melting and wilting.

(Time to stop typing. Just heard a rather large bang from their room. Timeout) Now I should be thankful that they play well together when they are supposed to be napping. But finding one being a horse and one being a cowboy wasn't my idea of a quality nap.

Looking at the weather forecast, I am somewhat thankful for the future warm temps and the prospect of someone wanting to buy my house. Now, let me preface that by saying if and only if I can clean it to a more than sub-par standard that is the life of a mom, who works from home, with twins. My current mindset of "if it is put up, it is clean" won't work. So, again being thankful.... Surround Sound will go to "school" two more days this week and I can clean. Oh joy. Cleaning. Guess I should be glad I have two arms and legs to clean!

And to end this epic saga, I am thankful for this crazy ride that is life. I don't know what I would do with one kid, a husband that was around all the time and a house that I didn't love. What would I do with a car that wasn't reliable, great people in my life and the constant laughter that fills my home? How would I be living my life if it weren't for the changes of the past two years? I mean honestly, it hasn't been beautiful, but it has been my life, my family, my choices and my hurdles. So, you... if you made it to the end of this boring, attempting to be funny, blog.... stop and take a minute to write out a thankful list. It might be ugly and short, but it is something. Do it! I dare you!