Have you ever chosen to find humor in your situation instead of the negative? I chose that today. We have had little black flies in our house and they have multiplied exponentially over night! This morning Dylan said to me that they were on the basement floor at the bottom of the stairs. They had mostly been in the bathroom and kitchen windows up until now. Well, I went down to get a box of mac n cheese for Kelsey at lunch time and they were EVERYWHERE on the floor dead down there!!! Weird, I know! So I decided to not just check with the internet on this one(I had looked last night and tried what they suggested to no avail) but instead called Terminix. We have them spray 4 times a year for pests outside(we rarely get any type of bugs in our house because of it). The woman on the phone said they were termites after we talked a bit and said that we could get a free consultation later today. I decided I wouldn't tell Brian until he got home.
After I picked up Bradley I had to run to the Post Office to mail our Young Adult service flyers. I left Bradley in the van with it running to stay cool and Kelsey and I went in. Well, you might have thought it was Christmas the line was so long and there was only one lady working. So finally he got tired of waiting and came in. I asked him where the keys were for him to say in the van. I said but it is running, what if someone steals the van? It's ok mom, he said, I locked the doors. Now mind you, you can't lock the doors on the driver's side when you get out and the van is running, but apparently you CAN lock all the doors from the passenger side when it is running because it assumes someone is still in the driver's seat!!! Crazy technology! So I had him go check and see if he could get in any of the doors. But mom, don't you have the key in your purse. No, the keys are in the ignition, the van is running! You don't have an extra one?!? No honey, go check the doors. Nope, nothing.....so now what?!? It is 3 o'clock and I have to pick Dylan up at 3:10 at the Elementary school. My mom had just called me from home on my cell phone, but I was at the window so didn't answer it. I called her and asked her what she needed. She asked if I had heard about the tornado warnings....yes I had. Are you free to go grab Dylan at the E. School? Yes. I am stuck. Where? At the post office, my keys are in the van and the van is running and all the doors are locked. So mom to the rescue!!! :) Bradley was beside himself at this point and I couldn't help but to laugh. It was funny....why get upset? There was no changing our circumstances. So we called the police dispatch because another woman in the Post office has it on her phone(apparently her days are eventful also). They sent fire duty officers over. Well, it just happened to be someone we knew.....one of Bradley's friend's dad and another man. The other man asked what happened and I told him that Brad had locked the doors so noone would steal the van and he said that was good thinking. :) Needless to say after little wait and no pain at all, we were back in and on our way. And, a great lesson was learned on all parts...Bradley that you don't lock the van when the keys are in it and it is running and also to lighten up when bad things happen.....you can't change the circumstances but you can choose how you react to them.
We then picked up Dylan at my mom's and Nicholas at the Middle School when soccer was done and came home to the Terminix guys. They looked around and thankfully they are not termites! :) He said he thinks they look like moisture bugs, but why we have so many and all over the place is another question. He took a couple of live ones to be tested by the bug guy and I will get called in the morning. Hopefully they can get rid of them, but if not, we will laugh through this one too. Life goes on.....laughter makes the moments lighter and reminds me to be thankful for the simpler things in life. Like, mom lives right in town and is great at rescuing us when in need-thanks mom!!! :) ; Firemen are there to help when needed, they really were my heroes today! :) ; laughter taught my son to not take himself, his mistakes, or life too seriously(on that note, my dad's office manager showed up at the post office while we were waiting outside and said that she had done that before-so he wasn't alone, that and my mom dropped her keys down a sewer drain once when we were in Derry and needed to get my brother at soccer practice soon-it all worked out); and I learned that even with bugs in the house I can be thankful that I don't live outside with the snakes, mosquitoes, and other creepy crawly things. :)
Learn to laugh and lighten up a bit. It makes the days less stressful when the trials come along. :)
