Inconvenience or Opportunity?

After one of little man's naps today, we explored the kitchen for dinner options. As I was reaching in the cabinet above our fridge to snag the box of Cherrios, a large container of oatmeal came crashing down and vomited most of its contents all over the kitchen floor. Needless to say, the first thought going through my head was something like this... "LOOK AT THIS MESS!!" But after the look on little man's face of sheer joy and amazement, I quickly decided to play along and have some fun with this! So, we both played in an oatmeal "sandbox" on the kitchen floor! We had more fun dumping the oats from one container to the other and then inevitably onto little J. After our fun, a quick sweep gave the floor a brand new look and we had dinner. It is amazing what our children can teach us about not getting bent out of shape over the smallest inconveniences and instead, turning them into opportunities. Oh! to put things into perspective as they do! What we could change about how we react to so many different things!