Shannon's Steps to Having a Great Day

1. Pick a day - any day - and invite a friend to come over at 9a.m. for the day
2. Put kids, picnic lunch and wagon in car and head out to the zoo
3. While walking from parking lot to zoo entrance, notice the following (in this order): scream, blood, bones. Realize that your child has somehow gotten his hand underneath a wheel of the wagon he's riding in, and you've run over it.
4. Spend 4 hours in the ER (with friend!), and use the time to:

• Blow up surgical gloves into balloons
• Learn what every button on the hospital bed does
• Use surgical gauze to make "casts" and "mummy heads"
• Take multiple tinkle/poop breaks
• Eat 13 packets of hospital-grade graham crackers for lunch
• Use tongue depressors as drum sticks
• Get X-rays

5. Take kids to Sonic for 3p.m. lunch and get pissy when the employees tell you that they don't stock Rum to add to your Vanilla Dr. Pepper