It's Truly How You Make It.

Today was an interesting day. Today was not a day that I would ever like to experience again. Today was a day when the 2 boys and I encountered a lot of cranky and tired and incredibly rude sales assistants. While I realise that there is only 1 week to go until Christmas and that the shops are very busy, and everyone appears quite stressed, I still don't believe there is a need for rudeness. So by 8am this morning when I had just had a very unexpected tyrant of abuse thrown my way by one of my suppliers, I wasn't feeling so optimistic about the day.

Shaking and very upset I thought I'm not going to let this 1 sided and unwarranted verbal abuse spoil my day so I packed the bag for the day and off the 2 boys and I went to Kmart to buy a little boy's birthday present. Here we encountered several sales assistants that truly did not want to be at work. Perhaps I wouldn't either if I was having to deal with all the people in the lay by que. But then again, perhaps it's truly how you make it that determines whether you have a happy experience or a frustrated one. At this stage I was still trying to maintain my composure. Then Bailey began to cry and cry and cry. Then he screamed and screamed and screamed.  I was calm and composed while trying to calm Bailey down. Then I thought "this is ridiculous. I don't want to be here. Evidently Bailey doesn't want to be here. Let's go." But Brandon insisted that we stay in the lay by que for our turn. He was such a good boy. I just looked down at my little 3 year old and I was so very proud of him. He truly has his moments. Most times he is a hurricane of pure energy but right now he was calm and composed and letting me know what he wanted to do.

After finishing at the lay by counter we walked through the front cash registers to be served by yet another person who should just have stayed in bed. Bailey was screaming still so I grabbed the nearest thing at the registers for calming someone down. It was chocolate and it was for me. And I enjoyed all of it. The learning part of today's Kmart experience was I never realised how many people walk around a shop on a mobile phone by themselves. The only reason I learnt this was because of the absolutely filthy and disgusting looks I got as Bailey screamed and screamed and they couldn't hear themselves. It was best we go to the car and go home.

Baileys screaming continued most of the way home until I pulled over to a side road, jumped out of the car, opened up Bailey's door and sat down next to him. And there we sat. By the side of the road. The 2 boys and I. Life passing us by.

Both boys were asleep by the time we eventually got home. The afternoon just passed. A huge storm came over and everything got very dark. I thought we would have another blackout, as we did last night. But the power stayed on. I spent the evening at work before finishing up and then putting Brandon to sleep. I was so tired that I actually fell asleep on Brandon's floor, as daddy did while putting Bailey to sleep. As I sit here recounting today's experiences I have tears rolling down my eyes. Tomorrow will be a better day and the 2 boys and I will have lots of fun and there will be lots of laughter, because that's how I choose to make it.