One of Those Mornings...

It's been one of those mornings...
I woke up with high hopes of having a calm day and getting caught up on all the to-dos of life.
I think sometimes it is worse when I wake up with that "get-lots-of-things-done-today" expectation.
Because instead of THAT, my morning looked like THIS...

Not one thing on my "list" got done.
Not one dish got washed.
Not one basket of laundry got folded.
It was a morning of messes, of children not listening, of a diaper disaster that led to a morning bath for two of my little ones, of rushing off to preschool with lunch still on the table.
Some days, I'm able to tackle this head on, take a deep breath, and plow through.
Other days, I am overwhelmed by the things I have to do and the lack of time I have to do them.
So for now, as naptime has finally come, I am taking a break to breath, to write, and to re-focus my heart on the kind of mama I want to be.  The kind that tackles the day head on, takes a deep breath, and plows through with a smile and a cheerful heart.
That is not who I was this morning.
But that is who I am prayerfully striving to be this afternoon.