Laugh About It

In life things won't always go as planned, things are going to get tough and disasters are going to happen. The best thing that you can do isn't to get upset or angry, or even quiet and intense while you figure out a new strategy. It's to learn to laugh about it. (Warning: If the disaster comes in the form of someone telling you about their problems you probably don't want to laugh at them. It's generally considered a bad idea.)

This week I went to cook dinner for my family and there was a crock pot on the back of the stove. Looking at it I wondered if it were too close to the burner that I needed to use but after trying to move it back discovered that it wasn't going to move any further. Without thinking I pulled the pan forward, inadvertently sending the heat out the back, towards the controls on the crock pot. Pretty soon I smelled something weird and went to check... there is now some missing plastic on the bottom of the control panel of the crock pot. Oops!
Thankfully instead of freaking out or getting upset I just started laughing. "Cooking casualty!" I labeled it before finishing dinner and moving on.

Well I moved on for two days until Thursday came along and once again I was cooking dinner when I decided to make some gravy. I decided to make the gravy a different way so I got out the plastic container, poured the juice straight from the oven into it and added some flower before putting on the lid. Little did I know that this container is designed for the lid not to seal tight when you put hot liquids inside because it will melt the container and burn you. Or, if you're like me, you put the lid on, put one finger on top of it and start to shake it to mix up the gravy when the lid comes off and ridiculously hot liquid goes everywhere! (Including my hand! Which is healing very well by the way.)
Thankfully God kept me calm once again and I was able to laugh about it instead of getting upset. With some help from my family, dinner was finished, my hand was doctored and the second cooking casualty of the week was laughed over as as we sat down to eat.

So hopefully you're catastrophes this week have been a little less destructive and painful then mine but just remember whatever comes your way, before you get upset, take a step back and learn to laugh about it instead.