Monday morning for sure...

I don't oversleep. For starters, my internal hard drive is pretty solidly programmed to wake up around 6:15 am. As a backup, I have Lily our dog. Without fail, each morning, she is scratching at the door at 6:30 am for her breakfast. Other backup include Sam who awakes between 6:30-6:45. Last but not least, we have the girls, as a fail safe, waking up at 7:00 am. So, what in the world happened this morning (by the way, I do have an actual alarm clock)?! Lily, Sam, Haley & Gracie all slept later than they slept all weekend and I forgot to set the alarm clock. When I cracked my eyes and saw daylight, I knew we were in trouble. I glanced hard at the clock as I can't really see it without my glasses and there it read 7:20! We're out the door and off to start our day at 7:30 each morning. What a way to start the week! As I hit the floor running, all I could think about was how this was not a good sign of things to come. Remarkably though, it was a great day! There were no major melt downs when I dropped everyone off at school. I was sporting a new dress and new shoes that I bought over the weekend in celebration of my 31st birthday. The temperature at our office remained a pleasant 74 degrees and I wasn't forced to wear my fleece and turn on my heater. I only had one irritating work related phone call. There was no major melt downs when I picked everyone up from school. Jason was home when we arrived back home and had dinner prepared for the trio. My grandparents' maid came over and cleaned so the house was neat and tidy. Sweet Michelle came by the house and picked up Dela our foster dog to take her to her vet husband's clinic to find a permanent home. I was pleasantly reminded of the babysitter Jason had planned so we could go out to dinner and celebrate my birthday again. We had a terrific dinner at Superior. Now, best of all, its peaceful in our house, the Saints are playing MNF and I'm getting ready to go to bed.

Lesson learned...just because the morning did not start out as I had planned, the day was blessed and turned out better than I could have planned.