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Jacob, my high-energy two-year old really hit the jackpot this week. Last week he figured out how to use his entire body weight to open the refrigerator door. Opening every single cabinet in the kitchen and removing all their contents is now passe for Jake. He’s discovered something new – trying to remove the contents of our refrigerator! We have caught him every time he tries, until a couple of days ago when he wandered slowly towards the kitchen, opened the refrigerator door, and picked up a heavy glass bottle full of orange juice. Mind you, he did this in the blink of an eye, for when my husband and I looked over at him, there he was, huge glass bottle in arms, walking slowly across our granite kitchen floor. Picture this, a chubby two-year old in Dr. Denton PJs hugging a bottle of OJ almost as big as his torso and trying to walk across our floor. Of course, we can all guess what happened next in this exact order: he lost his grip, the bottle fell and shattered in hundreds of pieces across our floor, and there he was standing there with a blank look on his face and the feet of his pajamas soaking in orange juice. He is only a few feet away from us! My husband races to pick him up off the mess as I immediately ran for towels and whatever else I could find to soak up the sticky mess. Yet during all of this I remained calm…hmmm, interesting.

My husband changed Jake while I rushed to get a hot bucket of water to clean up the floor. Of course, this happened at bed time, so everyone went off to bed, and I’m left to pick up the pieces, literally! Yet during all this I remained calm…hmmm, interesting.

I picked up the glass, wiped the floor spotless, and even lay down on it afterwards to see if I missed even the tiniest pieces of glass. The whole process took about 45 minutes. As I was wiping the floor I caught myself thinking, “Wow, why didn’t you freak out?” For some reason, the worst I felt over the whole incident was inconvenience. I was proud of myself that I took care of the moment and didn’t stress out over it and even found the whole thing to be humorous.

Next time something “inconvenient” happens in your life, remember that it happened and there’s nothing you can do to go back, only go forward, therefore, don’t sweat it. “Clean it up” and move on!