Our Beautiful Messes

During a recent employment stint at a corporate coffee house, one of my co-workers laughed through her frustration, "Gaaa, I swear I spend most of my time here cleaning up after myself!" It was so irritating because we always had a long list of "deep cleaning" that we were supposed to get done sometime during our shift, but between cleaning up after ourselves and customers, it would rarely get done. And how appropriate to the bigger picture! Days rarely go as they are planned because more often than not, we have to wait in the emergency room after a fall down the stairs, spend time explaining to the officer why we were speeding in a school zone, or come back to work with three times the workload because we played hookie the day before.  Oh, our beautiful messes and how all of the unplanned spills turn into our amazing daily lives!

My most recent spill...