Nothing like an ordinary day of chaos to bring you to your knees, be grateful for your blessings, and drive me to the crazy! Between two crying babies and another child not cooperating, I hear the wonderful sounds of pitter patter from the fourth child walking not so gingerly upstairs. She was supposed to be getting out of pajamas and into ‘real clothes’ for the day. Then I hear it …. “Mom, there’s a fire in room. Come quick!”. “A what?!” I say with fear, anxiety, and stress as an undertone. I hear it again …”A fire!” I put one of babies down in a safe place as to not be rolled over by her twin or be bothered too much by her older sister. I run to my older daughters room not know what I am about to walk into. And in those seconds be grateful that two of my four children are able to grab whatever I tell them to grab and run out of the house on their own. As I get closer to the bedroom, I see my daughter in the bathroom down the hall from her room. She doesnt look frightened. She must be a very strong kid to not be frightened if there is a fire in a room. ‘What a strong little girl I have, she is so brave’, I think to myself. I enter her room “Where? Where is the fire?” I ask her. In the closet? Coming out from one of the outlets behind her bed or dresser that I just don’t see? Where is this fire that I now have to extinguish and possibly evacuate all my kids all the while trying to be calm for their sake. “Not a fire, Mom. A SPIDER!” “A what?!” I have to take a moment to woo-saa myself. Heart, you can go back into my chest where you below now! A spider!!! A spider I can handle no problem. A little hairspray and a little toilet paper and down the toilet he will go. (Sorry to all you spider lovers out there.) I will deal with 1000 spiders (God, I hope I never do, ewww) over a fire. I pray that never happens either, of course, but I’ll take on the spiders if I had a choice, thank you very much.

In that moment, I taught my daughters that I am not only woman enough to kill a spider but I am also SuperMom enough to refrain from absolutely loosing my mind at a thought of a fire in the house. And then the complete flip as what I heard was NOT what we said. The thought of a complete and utter WhatTheWhat moment and I still managed to somewhat keep my cool.

Let me state that in ALL moments of Motherhood I am not so controlling of my emotions and definitely do flip the handle but I will take pride in this little parenting win for the day.