Crying Over Spilled Milk
We had company over yesterday and were sitting at the kitchen table playing a card game. I got up in-between hands to make a strawberry matcha smoothie. I poured my smoothie into a cup and was washing out the blender. I set the blender on the counter to dry and it fell over, knocking my smoothie over.... if you can picture it in slow motion... thick pink smoothie spilling everywhere... all over the floor, my rug, the cabinets, the stove, the fridge, my off white tennis shoes, my pants... literally everywhere. I wanted to cry - 1. because of the mess 2. because of the ingredients I lost and 3. because how could I have not seen it coming and been so careless. In the blink of an eye everyone in the room just left. Gone. Vanished. They said they went outside to "play with the dogs". They knew I needed a moment to collect my thoughts and even longer to clean up the mess. Where do you even begin to clean up a mess like that? One of our guests said, "It looked like someone was
