Just another day in Paradise.... Ummmm I mean Dunkin

It was a stressful day. Cindy had to show up ,at a medical facility over an hour from home, before the sun even rose for her newest round of clinicals. I was up at four AM trying to help get her out of the door on time,making sure she had proper directions , her hair completely up ( as strict HMSN rules dictate), and everything else that a good Mom helps with.We finish her hair just in time for her to leave but her cell phone is missing. We call it but the battery has died and our calls go straight to voice mail.She gets an attitude,I go off on her. Michael volunteers to let her use his cell phone as he is riding the bus to school anyway. Cindy is less than as thankful as I feel she should be, I tell her, she doesn't feel the same, she leaves. I get Mike up. His omelet sticks to the pan. I scrape it into the dog dishes and start over. The coffee pot overflows. Finally Mike is off to work and has a lunch and coffee... Small victory but none the less a victory. Robby's bus is early and we almost miss it. Robby runs out and the bus waits yes everyone is off. Small victory #2. Cindy calls and is at the medical facility for her clinical, yes she is safe. Now time to make some phone calls and pay some bills. As I spend more precious time on hold, my BP rises.The calls are done and I am off to run errands. Three stores later I still don't have what I needed for dinner,the menu changes. Back home, I start dinner and everyone is getting home. Karate is in one hour and I hit speed bake on the oven as I say yet another prayer. Dinner is on the table, we pray. As everyone digs in I get up to grab things that the kids did not put on the table.(nothing special just my drink) Dinner is finished the boys grab their gi s we are off. I come back home to the table still bearing dinner dishes. I call a sleeping Cindy to help clear it.Mike is trying to tweak my new computer's settings as I like them. soon I go get the boys.I'm now home and still in the car Mike joins me and we drive to the gas station. Wow the prices are rising, twenty cents per gallon in one day ! By now it is almost ten PM and I am exhausted but know that sleeping while stressed is unlikely. I pull out of the gas station and see a 24 hour dunkin donuts store. My car pulls in. Mike hesitates on his order. I order first one chocolate frosted cream filled. Not slimy Boston cream ! yes cream filled. Mike decides and orders. We drive through. I pull out of the DD parking lot and see the pond with fountain at the medical park behind DD. My car pulls in and stops. I stare at the lighted fountain as I devour my donut and wash it down with Diet Coke. Mike makes small talk and we have a trivial conversation. I stare at the water. Mike opens his window which allows the cool misty night breeze and the sound of the fountain as well as a slight rain hitting the water to come in. I feel the stress melting away.Our donuts and drinks are gone but we remain.I am lost in relaxation until my cell phone rings. It's Michael. He wonders why getting gas is taking so long.We're on our way, I say and we are.They say that everyone should have a happy place and I think I have found one . I only wish it was a low cal veggie stand instead of donut shop but hey sometimes you just accept these things