A pocket of good in an otherwise bad day

Today has been crap. It's been a cold fall day. Not one where the sun warms the air enough to enjoy being out, kicking the leaves. It has been grey and drizzly and cold. It is also my husband's birthday. So expectations have been a problem today. Not his, mine. I love birthdays and have high expectations of them being special and fun.

To celebrate the birthday, last night we had a party. An adult party. My husband wanted to watch Hockey Night in Canada. So we invited a bunch of couples over, plus my singleton brother who arrived in town for the weekend and the boys watched hockey. When it was done, we all played boys vs. girls Cranium. It was hilarious, competitive, cutthroat. And there was A LOT of beer consumed.....by my husband and brother (and a few other party goers).

This meant a slow start to his day. In fact most of his day was slow. He lounged / snoozed on the couch until 10am and spent most of the afternoon in bed snoozing. But I digress. This post wasn't meant to be a rant about all the things that have made me irritated and angry today. I was intending a post where I simply stated that today was a shitty day and I have spent most of it angry. Some of it even blood boiling angry.

And then around 4pm, for just over an hour, the clouds cleared on my day and I was able to laugh and smile. With Baby Boy finally napping, I took Baby Girl and we went to the pool for an hour. She insisted on wearing a life jacket and suddenly she could swim. Her last set of lessons had kicked in and with the life jacket on, she was racing around the pool, actually swimming. She chased me around the river and did big jumps into the deep pool. She showed me her back floats and scooped bubbles in the hot tub. It was a full hour of just mother / daughter time and I loved it. So amongst the anger and the frustration today, Baby Girl helped me find some light.