Silver Lining

William puked this morning. Full on, all-over-everything puked. But I'm doing my best to stay positive and look for the silver lining in the ordeal and not let it ruin my Monday.

Silver Lining Number One: He puked in his car seat on the way to Darrell's office (because Darrell forgot his lunch at home). This meant that Darrell was able to come out and take care of the majority of the mess for me--all I had to worry about was getting William into a change of clothes, and Darrell even took the puke-y clothes off for me! (thank goodness I had an extra outfit in his diaper bag!) I have a notoriously weak stomach, and while I know things are going to get worse before they get better with kids, it was nice to have Darrell's help with the majority of the mess. (I still have to be responsible for rinsing out his clothes and car seat cover before getting them in the wash--a task that I might need to do while breathing through my mouth.)

Silver Lining Number Two: Not only was I already planning to do laundry today, but the load that William's car seat cover needs to be washed in had not been washed yet. That may not sound that remarkable, but considering I had already started two of my four loads before leaving the house this morning, I consider it fairly lucky that I hadn't started the load I was going to need.

Silver Lining Number Three: Even if I weren't able to get William's car seat cover washed and back on his car seat in a timely manner, it wouldn't be an issue anyway because we just ordered a new car seat for William and it is on the truck for delivery today! We have him in a rear-facing convertible seat in Darrell's car (and have since he was born), but up until now he was still riding in his infant car seat in my car (although I long ago stopped removing the car seat from the base to carry it around. Little devil was too heavy for that business!). He's pretty much at the point of having outgrown it, though, so as of tonight he will be in a new rear-facing convertible car seat in my car as well!

Here's to hoping I find more silver linings in my dark clouds today--or maybe just no more dark clouds!!