Mama needs to vent ...

... I know, I know just what you want to read about after days of no new posts, right?

Sorry, sometimes a girls got to vent. This morning was one of those times ...

I slept later than I had intended to due to a fitful nights rest. I had intended to have Ethan and I out the door by 9AM. Realizing that was not going to happen I shifted my thinking, thankful for no schedule today and came up with a workable plan B. We left the house around 11:15AM after a morning of making sugar cookie dough and relaxing. We were on our way to the doctor's office to get our scheduled flu shots (although E didn't know it yet) and some blood work for me. Yea! So, during the 20 minute ride to the doctor I prepped E for what was going to happen, talked him through his worries as best I could and tried to lift the all of a sudden heavy mood in the car. I had decided we could use a lunch date and toy store visit to each our pain ... Ethan agreed that this would indeed make him feel much better about getting a shot.

We get to the doctor, sign in, go back to the lab and low and behold they ran out of the pediatric vaccine Ethan needed ... LAST WEEK! I called on Monday to schedule our appointment. Ethan was now thoroughly confused, the lab tech was still trying to figure out my blood work and I was left trying to figure out the best remedy for this problem ... the best I came up with was that we would re-schedule and come back next week when we are sure they have the shots in stock.

Now I know this isn't a huge thing, but boy did it feel huge and it made me upset that I had put Ethan through that emotional roller coaster, upset that the day was really not going as planned, irritated that we had (or at least it felt like) wasted time and money driving for 45 minutes with nothing accomplished, frustrated that my day could be upset by something so silly.

So I decided it was my choice how the rest of the day went and despite going home for lunch and not getting a new toy ... we did end up having a good day.

We still enjoyed lunch together.
While Ethan rested I was able to sew something "for fun."
We cut out and baked half of our sugar cookie dough from the morning.
I was showered and "put together" which always makes my day better ... and may not have happened had we not left the house.
We had a "snack/fend for yourself" dinner (Matt was working late) so we could get on to the fun of carving pumpkins.
We carved three pumpkins while watching some TLC.

I'm so glad I let the frustration go and my mind was quickly focused on all there was to be thankful for and enjoy this day.

If I wasn't being so lazy, I'd upload one of our pumpkin pictures. But I am and I'm headed to bed ... but I *hope* to share a lot of fun pictures the next few days.

Happy Wednesday!