what you see/what you don't see

What you see:

 

A delightful jack-o-lantern with a delicious pumpkin bowl of oatmeal.

 A quiet rainy Sunday with a cute girl reading from her chapter book.

It was a lovely weekend filled with these things.

 

However.

 

What you don't see.

 

The irritated mom who drags out all the stuff to carve a pumpkin, hoping for a nice family moment.

And getting a kid who spends 12 seconds painting a pumpkin and a husband who disappears into the basement to watch football.

I carved that sucker all alone.

 

The oatmeal in the pumpkin bowl was not nearly as good as it should have been.

 

A kid screaming bloody murder 12 seconds before the reading shot because there is nothing "painless" about Compound W.

(She has a wart or 4 on her knee)

 

The whining and grumpiness happening.

From me.

I just wanted to read my darn book!

 

 

 

But I would like to think that I won't remember those things.

 

I will only remember these two shots.

And how the good moments of the day far outweighed the irritating ones.