Poop on Aisle 5
What I have been dreading for the past couple weeks as we have entered into the potty training stage of toddler-hood happened this week. Allie was free birding it and dropped a solid present next to her little Minnie Mouse table.
Which of course happens while I too was using the bathroom. Which equals my cleaning her up from the royal throne. As I am talking to her about how poop goes in the potty the same way pee pee does. I’m dreading what horror movie scene awaits me in our living/kitchen area.
I am having flashbacks of my folks saying, “I hope she plays in her poop like you did that day.” running through my mind. And I’m trying to not freak out!. And to my surprise it wasn’t as awful as I was envisioning it to be.
Our little girl managed to make her own landing zone. She cleared the drop zone and moved her chairs against the fridge, far away from getting hit with anything. There can’t be any casualties when Minnie Mouse chairs are on the line.
She even kept the mess on the laminate floor. And best of all she did so much better than I did, she didn’t play in it.
The big moment I had been dreading and feeling like I am not adult enough to handle…has come and gone. We had poop on our floor today. And the earth didn’t come crashing down. I didn’t go into full freak out mode, by the grace of God.
There are so many items that we can choose to dread as we walk through the many seasons of mommahood. We also get the same choice to keep our hearts, emotions, eyes, and minds on the Lord and let His peace guide our lives.
Isaiah 26:3, says it best in this song being sung to God,
“You will keep the mind that is dependent on you
in perfect peace,
for it is trusting in you.”
Trust in the Lord above all else. Only He knows the middle, beginning, and the end.
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