I dropped my watch in the peanut butter

So yesterday was my birthday and I decided if I were going to title it anything it would have to be "I dropped my watch in the peanut butter". The night before I decided that I was going to have a good birthday and there was nothing anyone could do to stop me. I started off taking a walk with Dawkin, exercising, and then reading my Bible and praying. Christin, who usually sleeps through all this, woke up while I was exercising on the porch. Her first comment when she walked outside at 6:45am was "it's so quiet out here". All I could think was "It usually is" however I chose to be nicer and resolved not to be cranky and said "yes that's why Mommy likes it so much" My first small victory of the day. I went in and prayed that God would help me to have a good attitude no matter what. And He did! I cleaned and did laundry all happily with children hanging from me. When Aidan and Maddie decided to see who could cry louder I turned on music and started dancing like a mad woman (oh the things my neighbors would see if they were looking in my windows). By lunch time I felt somewhat victorious and thankful that God had been helping me have a good attitude. As I made peanut butter sandwhiches I somehow dropped my nice watch into the peanut butter. I'm still not quite sure how it happened but all I could do was laugh and think "I wonder if there is anyone else in the world who could say they've dropped their watch in the peanut butter?" It reminded me of my 15th birthday when I singed my hair making french toast but that's a story for another day. Anyway, I spent the next 15 minutes cleaning my watch with q-tips and pondering whether this was the devil trying to make me get annoyed, God showing me how to have a good attitude, or just me being clumsy. Whatever the cause I'm fairly certain that my watch will forever smell like peanut butter. I could be anoyed but instead I decided my watch can be a constant reminder of how if we let God have control of our attitudes the extremely annoying can somehow become funny. It made me think "don't sweat the small stuff, just laugh at it:)

PS. Look for the first name game clue this weekend!