Rays of Sunshine

It's been a rough week at the Clark household. I can't even talk about it. It has to do with a corrupted hard drive in my laptop. That's all I can say without crying and thinking bad words.
And to make it worse, my BS was out of town for the week :(

BUT. There are little rays of sunshine that bless me when I need to be happy and forget my troubles. These rays come in the form of my 4 little children. On the day I realized the bad news, I wanted to crawl up in bed and cry and feel sorry for myself and angry at myself. But instead I had to get one little girl to her very first dance class...

And one little boy to his Junior Jazz basketball game...

These pictures of Will portray the state of mind I was in that day. I mean really, what mom takes their child to his basketball game to play in snow boots???

Even worse, one boy on his team was going to let Will wear his shoes while he was sitting out and when Will took off his boots....no socks! So I told him he would just have to play in his boots. He wasn't very happy, but he did it! And everyone was really nice not to laugh at him.

Before the game, at home, I was scrambling to get dinner cleaned up, get Sambo picked up from a friend's house and ready for Scouts, and get to the game with the kids on time, all while trying to deal with my new-found tragedy. I put Will's jersey and shorts on him and told him to put on his shoes and get in the car. And that was it. I didn't check. And I know better because he always needs help tying his shoes in double knots.

Yep. I'm an awesome mom.

Watching these 2 kids made me smile so big and laugh so hard and help me forget about the hard things in life.

I'll explain the tragedy sometime soon when I've coped with it better.