One of the things that the last year has definitely taught me is to roll with the punches as best as I can. I'm trying to remember that there is nothing I can do to change things...all I can affect is how I react to circumstances. This was readily evident Friday afternoon when I arrived home from my weekly grocery trip and it seemed as though our garage freezer had stopped working. While only the things in the very front had thawed, I was still left with the immediate problem of trying to save the things that hadn't yet thawed. I began prioritizing, and anything that could be saved by moving it into the fridge was moved. I took a couple of frozen lasagnas to my cousin who lives here in town and told him to put them to good use. My plan for the evening meal had been making our own pizzas which is always a fun family event, but since that didn't help with the meat issues we cooked our own large frozen lasagna instead. Instead of a Mother's Day meal out yesterday, we put the large ham that had thawed in the crock pot...at least I still didn't have to cook it!
This is just one example of little things that I'm trying so, so hard not to let bother me...because they are nothing but little things. I just still don't have a lot of reserve for stress these days, and some days are just tougher than others...and of course parenting a teen uses up most of what is left!
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