guess what? it’s tuesday already and i’m really not ready to run.
it looks dark and rainy outside…i’m gonna check my email to see if my coach has emailed to cancel track practice…let’s keep our fingers crossed. 
tuesday part 1
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neutralizing agent
a day in the sun full of playing and laughing but now with both arms full and two tired kids who don’t want to listen, i watched a mommy reach the end of her rope. it was a rewind minute for me because i had been there countless times. both hands full, tired,hungry kids not listening and me just wishing to be in the safety of my car so i could have a meltdown without anyone watching.
of course there’s nothing simple about getting a kid into a car once the golden minute of opportunity passes. the ideal time would have been 30 minutes before, but, that was the ideal moment and here she was in the after moment.
as they were walking, the little girl fell, dropped her little bucket of toys and got dirt all over her face. mommy’s obviously flustered because her little boy’s not cooperating and her thinking has passed the point of logic, so she can’t decide if she should command the helpless child to get up on her own or if she should put down her things to systematically pick up all dropped objects and child in order to proceed to car without experiencing afore mentioned meltdown outside of the privacy of her car.
i remember that moment and my heart went out to her because i know what she felt…some days you just wanna throw your arms up in the air and say “why?”
Of course in hindsight you realize, “i made choices to let my minute of opportunity pass, so who should i get upset with other than myself?” still…wouldn’t it be great in those moments of arm throwing if someone would enter the scene to pick up our dirty kids(per se, for those of you who don’t have any rugrats), smile at us, help us gather our mess and neutralize the situation?
Yeah, I know 20/20 vision happens in hindsight, but quite often in that “moment” nothing has clarity because the tears can be blinding.
just a thought, but maybe today YOU are called to be a neutralizer
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