life is like a…

bag of popcorn…wait, something’s different here.  Yep, at Casa de Sublett, life is like a bag of microwave popcorn.

I was downstairs while the kids and Kim were watching American Idol.  Sadie volunteered to make the popcorn, but Lilly was the one to fetch it from the microwave.  They popped 2 bags, and I heard Lilly exclaim, “Sadie, I think this one’s kettle corn!  It is, it is kettle corn!”

You see, on the last grocery run, Kim bought 4 boxes of microwave popcorn–2 original, 2 kettle corn.  She asked Sadie to take the individual bags out of the box and transfer them to the cute little tupperware tub that she keeps the popcorn in.  She also asked Sadie to mark the kettle corn bags with a KC in the corner, using a sharpie.

A few minutes later, Sadie had all the bags out and had started marking all the bags with a KC.  Yep.  She was marking all the bags.  We caught her before she got through all of them, but there was no way of telling which bags were actually kettle corn.

That’s not actually true, now, is it?  You can tell once you dive into the bag, of course.  But now every time the girls want to have popcorn, it’s like a tiny adventure in popcorn land.

We’ve tried to take our mistakes and turn them into adventures.  You know, sort of redeeming the “oops” in love.

How are you doing with your “oops?”