Perspective

    Today I have been a little on the bitter side. I don't know why, just kind of frustrated with stuff in general.
1) I was upset that Emily had an orchestra concert tonight right before the end of the trimester and that she had to have all black clothes and shoes of which she did not have in the closet. Just as perturbed it cost $65 for a simple black dress and shoes at Target.
2) I was in a foul mood over the fact that the teachers have been assigning mounds of homework this close to the end of the trimester. Emily had come home upset and told me her teacher said, "don't have your parent's email me and ask for an extra time, I've given you plenty of time to get this typing done." Yes he had, except the link for the page only started working this week so now all the kids are behind in the lessons. (Emailing him was on my agenda for tonight before she told me I better not)
     So tonight we went to McDonald's for a little treat. 3 peppermint hot chocolates, a strawberry smoothy and two cherry pies. The lines were long and before we were done ordering the guy said oh, you'll have to tell the guy at the window the rest of the order. No big deal. We get up to the pickup window we have a bag with 2 pies and a tray with a smoothy and three hot chocolates so we head home.
Then we sat down to the table and I started to hand out the goodies and when he starts eating Gabe says, "this isn't a cherry pie...it's really good" I didn't know what it was but it smelly yummy. The girls and I tried our hot chocolate which was not peppermint and I was not happy. Gabe looked at me and said, "Mom, It was probably just a mistake, everyone makes mistakes." Yes Gabriel you are right everyone makes mistakes. Thank you for some perspective. Sometime Mommy just need a shot of perspective!
Thank you God for this little boy, who I believe you gave me, to be the perspective giver in my life.