Mama's Losing It!

Today I had one of those moments of having to remind myself that my kid's childhood is going to pass so quickly and I need to savor every moment and not let the little things drag me down.... Ahhh. So easy to tell myself when I am calm and things seem to be going ok at the moment. After asking sweet, sweet, sweet Ella 5,000 times to please not brush the dropped spaghetti onto the floor from the table, scraping dried Cheerios off the floor from breakfast, the cat knocking down an entire glass of water onto all the spaghetti and Cheerios and then hearing Ella in the background yelling "Mama! It's for my booty! Mama! It's for my booty!" and realizing she has an open bottle of baby powder in her hand and is slinging it every which way while walking around the house I literally had to close my eyes, take a few deep breaths and remind myself that going catatonic is always a viable option. JUST KIDDING!!! But it really was a trying evening. I had to just leave the Cheerios, spaghetti, water and baby powder on the floor, go out into the backyard in the lovely 70 degree whether with the sun setting and water the plants while zoning out for a good half hour while Ella buzzed around me talking to the dogs. Parenthood, it's what's for dinner.