A Day of Lessons Learned

Today was, well, it was challenging. But with challenges come good lessons learned.

• Today I learned in order for us to stand any chance of making it to Sunday School I will have to plan and prepare the night before. We were not planning on attending Sunday school today but I woke up earlier than usual and jumped in the shower before the girls awoke. I felt good and knew we wouldn't be rushing out the door to get to church on time - for a change. And then before I knew it we only had 30 minutes before we needed to leave, neither of the girls were dressed, I wasn't dressed, and the diaper bags were not yet packed. Once again I was rushing to get everything and everyone ready to go and we left 10 minutes later than we should all of which put me in a not so great mood.
  
• Today I learned it is much easier to control what I am eating and how much I am eating when I am not feeling guilty about losing my patience with a 3-year-old.
• Today I learned it feels much better and is much easier to pray for help than to not ask God for help only to later have to pray for forgiveness. (This isn't really a new lesson learned but one re-enforced and reiterated.)
• Today I learned one person's bad mood and attitude (mine) is very contagious and will spread to the rest of the family quickly ruining the day for all.

So today was not perfect but I would not say it was all bad either. Since I am working on my "tomorrow" attitude I won't end the post with "tomorrow is another day." Instead I will change my attitude NOW, sneak into the girls' rooms a little later and whisper "I'm sorry and I love you" in their sweet little ears, tell my husband the same and go to bed a happier person in order to get a better start to the day after today! :)