Please may I have more?

There are some days when you just have to eat and eat and eat that darn elephant, I suppose it is best roasted, well done and a ridiculous portion is served. It's like the old cliche "when it rains, it pours". You see my little elephants challenged the coffee table, not once but several times, and you know what? The coffee table won......repeatedly. Because of the coffee table's numerous offenses, my little elephants had to have some ivory removed from their mouths today, only I got to pay for it. It was truly heart breaking sitting on my 2 year old so he couldn't buck and create more harm to himself as his broken tusks were torn from his tender mouth. In another room next two his the 4 year old elephant started to trumpet her distress. I realize it had to be done but I was hoping for a breath between tusk extractions, 2 and 4 year old gummy smiles are not as appealing as an infants toothy grin, especially when it is tear streaked and my chest was raw from my heart being torn out. I really don't care for placing the little ones on the table to be served up to life's pains. oh well at least jello, popsicles and pudding can help. I WOULD RATHER HAVE MORE SWEETS ON DAYS LIKE THIS ONE.

There's mud in your eye...

Sometimes, I take comfort in the fact, that when you are in a torrential downpour of sorrow, crisis, stress and pain, all you have to do is pull your face out of the mud and look up
(hopefully the rain will have settled down enough that you don't drown that way as well...but I digress).
You pull your face out of the dirt, wash it in the fresh rain and start to look for silver linings in the clouds....
a prayer at this time couldn't hurt either. How did you get in the mud lying face down like that anyway?
Quite possibly similiar to how my 2 year old does....
throws himself on the ground and cries because he didn't get his way.
Overwhelmed, upset, heartbroken,or one more stupid mistake made. Don't we all feel better after a good cry,a tantrum, a cookie and a nap?(CHOCOLATE)
Not only should one pull themselves out of the mud after such an impromptu mud bath and facial, but then try and enjoy a few mud pies.
It's not always about lemonade and lemons, life can be about getting dirty and enjoying it. Sooooo....... as I said before what a comfort to know that after I pull my face and heart out of the mud, if I look up I can go on to have some good clean fun.

How to to eat elephant when you are tired of elephant?

Well, it starts like this.....like any proverbial elephant that is placed in your way you usually have to start with one bite at a time. This can be okay until you are full or bored with the current menu. Life can sometimes hand you an elephant so big you have to become more creative in how you prepare and consume it. Take for instance today..... today was a day when life handed me an enormous portion of blubber, elephant blubbber with thick, chewy, gray unpalatable skin.
blubber, blubber, blubber. No tears, just full on 4 year old blubber. Complete with screaming, I wanted to scram and scream. Hmmm and what does that mean? My cute little 4 year old had a full hour long tantrum, for all to see and hear, that piece of blubber definately got my blood pressure up, ulcers flaring and some others things as well. Elephant fat does not go down well without seasoning or toys....apparently. The best thing is to put this type of elephant flesh into a room of its own, until it becomes soft, sweet and more temperate, while you go off and do something else.....like eat chocolate and blog or take a deep breath and wait it out.