Licks and kisses and falls!

What do licks, kisses, and falls have in common?  Well they are all there for a reason I suppose....

Every morning as  I leave the house for work my dog is on the couch staring out the window as if she doesn't even care that I exist and my son is usually crying and clinging to me as if I were doing such an injustice to him!  Then every evening as I return from a long hard day at work I can barely get through the door because my dog is wagging her tail eager to cover me in her licks and my son is excitedly yelling gibberish at me trying to grab my hand to take me to some new and exciting spot (usually the kitchen).  My husband is somewhere in the house usually on his phone or adding to the pile of mail I need to go through but I believe he tries to give me some room to get in.  I have two choices right then and there I can be drug down by the extra weight of my child and dog and let all my bags fall to the ground along with me and let the exhaustion set in or I can laugh hysterically at the fact that I can't balance my bags on my shoulders as the excitement of my little kiddos (yes my dog is a second child) re energizes me and gives me the extra oomph I need to cook some dinner and do bed time routines.  Then on days I didn't have time to work out at lunch hopefully get in a workout while they are fast asleep.  The good thing is if I make the wrong decision one day I have the next day to make the right one!

This weekend I was so excited to get out for a run on Sunday that I tripped and fell and bruised up and scraped my knees.  The second I hit the ground my dog came running back to me and licked me as if her life depended on it.  I'm pretty sure there was some french kissing going on at one point.  But instead of letting the throbbing of my knees keep me down I laughed at how enthusiastically she was encouraging me to get back up.  I did the rest of the run a little slower but still just as excited to be out.  When I got home my son was there to help me stretch and he kept sitting on my lap and I hugged him until he broke free!  They are there whether I'm down or up and with just as much joy for life either way.  I hope to use every day to make the right choice but on the days I don't like this morning when I was overwhelmed by having to do laundry, wash dishes, feed myself and my son, and prep my lunch before work and I gave in to a knee jerk reaction that set me off (this is like my fall on my run) I hope to remember the licks and kisses and laugh it all off, get right back up on that treadmill of life!  My son just started giving us real kisses and it was the best thing EVER in the whole world!