Serenity Now!!!

Like Frank Constanza, sometime I find myself wanting to scream this at the top of my lungs SERENITY NOW!! Especially when my 2 1/2 year old is crying "mommy up" over and over and over again while I am trying to cook a birthday dinner for my sister in law. This following a day stuck in the house with a sick kid. A day where I was planning to teach/take three yoga classes, (ok one is pilates but still) that was to be my serenity.  That however did not happen.


Instead my day went like this, wake to a puking child, clean her up put her back to bed, wake again to a puking child, get her cleaned up and get tucked in on the couch to figure out who was going to teach my classes.  Then the beeping started. BEEP. Not a loud beeping, just a soft little my battery is low beep.  OKay so the universe was telling me I was supposed to change the batteries in the smoke detectors when daylight savings ended a few weeks ago. I can handle that. So up on the chair I climb...but I'm 5'2", so the damn detector is just out of my reach, so I say to sick Marley, "never so this" and I climb on a piece of furniture to reach it, I get it down replace the battery and put it back up, Yay me....BEEP. Seriously, so I take it down pull the battery out and say find we have like 10 smoke detectors we will be fine. BEEP. What???  AND it was coming from this spot. SO I say forget it I can block it out.

Well yes I can but my dog can not and she processed to be glued to my ass all day. BEEP Marley continues to puke. BEEP.  She sleeps some more, BEEP.  Finally she seems to be coming out of it, feeling better holding down water and she wants Saltines. BEEP.  The dog is going ape shit and I put her outside for a while. BEEP.  Marley climbs on the couch and wants to watch Elmo on my laptop, no problem, BEEP.  So I got to investigate, BEEP. Maybe it's actually the one at the top of the stairs, BEEP. holy cow it is, BEEP.  I pull it down and replace, ahhhh. finally silence, BEEP. WHAT????

After MUCH searching I realized it was not the smoke detector but the battery in the carbon monoxide detector, BEEP. So once that is replaced, BEEP, the beeping stops, finally peace. But the damage is done, the dog has lost her squash and she can't seem to relax.  Then I think, hmmm, how to dogs relax??  Will have to work on that one!

SO yesterday is done, the house is refinanced, which happened after the beeping stopped, Marley is feeling much better and dinner is made for tonight. All in all not so bad. So how did I avoid allowing the BEEPing to make me as crazy as the dog?

This is how, I remembered that this too shall end, I unlike Mika have the ability to use self talk, to remind myself that Marley will not be sick forever, that my husband will make the beeping stop if I can't, that the house is clean enough for family to come over and that just because I didn't get to do 3 hours of yoga, doesn't mean I'm going to crack up. I reminded myself to be mindful, to look at Marley's beautiful face as she slept on me, and hang on to this moment, because like the BEEPing this too shall pass, and this I will miss. 

Take time for you today, you deserve it!
Namaste