Today is ...

Today is Administrative Professionals Day. It is not widely celebrated. Unfortunately.

I do a lot of work at my office. I try to be as helpful and supportive as I can to the staff in my office. I'm the Office Manager so I basically have to make sure that the office is managed. (As an aside, can you even imagine having to be an "administrative professional" with Michael Scott as your boss? Hilarious) I try to keep things in order as much as possible.

It's not easy. There are personalities. There are always personalities. But I forge ahead unswervingly.

Am I rewarded? No. Thanked? Not enough. Not really.

It got me thinking about life at home.

Last night my hubby, Curtis, and I were eating ... in the living room (don't knock it, you KNOW you totally do it too). The kids had already been fed and were playing happily. I was patting myself on my back for a job well done. Dinner made and yummy? Check. Kids happy and playing well together? Check. Enjoying a moment with my husband? Check.

Then Bruce Lee, currently in the process of being potty trained, peed himself. Sans pull up.

No problem. Curtis stripped him down and the wet clothes were sent to the laundry room and everyone was happy again. Our peaceful evening resumed.

And then it happened. Bruce Lee pooped on the carpet. In the living room. We had apparently neglected to put clothing back on Bruce Lee.

Curtis yelled "he's pooping" - we jumped up and went into action. Curtis carried Bruce Lee upside down to the bathroom - because more poop was coming out - and put him on the toilet. Meanwhile, I ran to get a paper towel to clean up the nuggets that were nesting on the wool carpet.

Bruce Lee finished his poop - appropriately - on the toilet. He was bathed and then put in bed. Happy.

Curtis and I were flawless in our handling of the poop emergency. Flawless in our parenting in that moment. Perhaps less flawed parents wouldn't have let their 2 year old poop in the living room in the first place. But you know what they say ..... "s-it happens."

So today as I reflect on the fact that absolutely no one in this office will remember or care that it's Administrative Professionals Day I can comfort myself with the knowledge that I do the best I can at work ... and at home.

And Curtis and I make a pretty darn good team of "administrators" in our home.