February 9, 2010 – Listen closely

This morning as the day was just beginning, I was in my room dressing to take my daughter to school.   It was quiet in the house… probably the only time today that it would be quiet.   It was then that I heard another promise of spring.  I heard birds singing.
I stopped and practiced what I’ve been saying for months now… I took a lesson from myself and listened to the beautiful sounds, the morning songs being played for me by these beautiful birds outside my window, another promise of spring around the corner.
And then the day began.   I was stopped by a police officer on the way to take my daughter to school.  I had to take both kids to the grocery.  In the rain.  With no help loading or unloading any of it.   When putting it all away, my daughter dumped a container of pre-cut vegetables onto my floors.  While she was doing that, my son squirted the mustard container onto my floors.   I tried to download a song to my i pod for the gym tonight and instead accidentally deleted all 657 of my songs on my i pod.  I didn’t make it to the gym, but instead got into an argument with my husband.  Our plans for family dinner night were spoiled and my son ate paint.   The kids got in bed late, we were doing school projects beyond a reasonable time and it was cold and rainy…. all. day. long.   It was an overall miserable day.
And though this is exactly the opposite of the setting where these complaints should rest, it brought me back, at the end of the day to the sweet sing songs of my morning.   It was a moment to relish… a sweet, peaceful moment, a fantastic start to a day.  Perhaps if I’d have taken some time throughout the day to stop and remember this peace I could have altered the course of some of the events with my own positivity.  I’m sure it could’ve happened.   Regardless, I am going to think of it now… bottle that moment of peaceful songs into my memory and save it for the next crazy moments, which I’m sure, like spring, promise to be right around the corner.
~K