Breathe

We were on the way to having one of those mornings. I took a deep breath and readjusted my plans and my attitude. Remade her lunch after her brother spit on her cupcake. Helped her do that homework she insisted she was going to do. Proved to her that her shoes did not have goldfish in them and that she could wear them. On the way to the car we had to wait while she tried to catch "Prince", the neighbors cat. And then we were on our way. She looked in the mirror and said Prince was in our driveway. I told her Prince and Sunset were having a cat party. The whole drive there we talked about what a cat party would look like. A cat party has dishes of water and milk. Toy mice hang from the ceiling on strings. And Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" is playing for them to dance to. I would have missed this moment had the morning gone any other way.