Reasoning

Today was a horrible day.

Or so I thought...

I woke up to find my blog covered in a lovely message from Photobucket stating "Bandwidth Exceeded". Normally, this would not have been a problem but the account that the images are connected to is not mine. So I contacted the lady who done my blog design only to find out that she was out-of-town.

Great for her, bad for me.

All I could think of was "What are my sponsors going to think?" "Am I going to lose potential review/giveaway sponsors when they see this?" "Is it going to effect my traffic?"

Meanwhile, Princess P was being extremely whinny and would not get off of my lap. Don't get me wrong, I love it when she loves on me. But it gets a little annoying when she erases something important and I have to re-type it five times.

Finally, The Fresh Beat Band comes on (Princess P's favorite show) and things started to look up.

Or so I thought...

I kept refreshing my blog hoping to find it restored back to normal but the only thing changing is my alexa ranking (that's good I guess). So I moved on to Photoshop to tackle an exciting project I have coming up. Big mistake! I could not get the editing features to work and it was just infuriating me even more. I quit that project and decided to try another one.

I gathered Princess P up (after The Fresh Beat Band went off, of course) and we headed into the kitchen to work on her Valentines Day cards. That will be fun right?!

Not so much.

The only thing she wanted to color was the placemats and the table. I decided to distract her with Goldfish while I finished up the cards. One project down, many more to go.

I headed back to the computer hoping to find my blog back to normal. It wasn't, so I went blog and Twitter hopping. After visiting several blogs I was feeling envious of some fellow bloggers because of the wonderful reviews and giveaways they are hosting. Incredibly shallow, I know.

Today sucks.

Or so I thought...

I came across a tweet from a mom who is losing her two-year old daughter (@LaylaGrace) to cancer, something a parent should never have to face. As I went back and read through her tweets my heart sank and I began to sob.

Then I prayed.

I prayed for sweet Layla Grace and her family. I prayed that they find comfort and peace in the coming days. I prayed for a miracle.

I continue to pray.

I thought of all the "horrible" things that had happened to me throughout the day. The thought of losing sponsors, being envious of other bloggers, wanting Princess P to watch t.v. instead of spending time with her. How incredibly shallow and selfish of me. How could I think that those things were horrible when a family is battling to keep their sweet miracle?

I asked for forgiveness.

God always has a way of putting things in perspective.

(Sweet Layla Grace, you are an inspiration.)

And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive. -Matthew 21:22