some sort of balance....some way to get a handle on everything....
and you know what? it just isn't possible..and that has gotta start being perfectly O.K.
i've gotta stop driving myself outta my mind trying to find & achieve something that just isn't gonna work for me....i've gotta stop chasing june cleaver's shadow
b/c when it boils right down to it....who the hell cares if i don't get all the housework done? is it the end of the universe if i still have a shopping bag full of unopened mail sitting in my kitchen from this summer that i just didn't get to yet? is it that big of a deal if we don't have a perfect dinner on the table every night of the week? so what if i don't have a binder listing all of the kids' activities including all the pertinent phone numbers & directions (like one super organized mom i met)?
i've gotta a news bulletin for myself....i'm not perfect and no one expects me to be so
my kids don't play like the kids on the toy commercials....my house doesn't look like the catalog....i don't clean the bathroom w/ cute little animated soap bubbles who wink at me....and my "situations" don't get solved in 22 minutes like they do on "Friends"...
so in my search for BALANCE i've gotta scale back my expectations just a wee bit....
b/c my kinda balance is gonna include a bunch of craziness attached to it for now....and frankly the craziness can be quite a blast if i let it
and it breaks my heart to know that there will be one day that i will look back & remember these days so fondly and i'm gonna wish so much that i had all of this craziness back....i'm gonna miss all of this nuttiness...and squabbling...and fights over how many bites they have to take before they get that lollipop...and crayons all over the floor....and teeny tiny clothes that fill up the laundry basket....
so when this week's Word Up came around....it took me a bit of time to figure out what BALANCE meant to me...& this is what i came up with:
& this week the team was so fortunate to be sponsored by Technique Tuesday...LOVE their stuff....& i got to use the santa cruz alphas and the dog & pony show stamp sets on this layout & i'm gonna warn you that you'll be seeing LOTS of those sets in the future from me....i LOVE them...they are so freakin' cool...i also used their fabulous frames which are so awesome!!!! they were so easy to just rub ink all over to color them up...but i'll admit my fave thing about those frames is that the ink dried like instantly on them...i'm so freakin' impatient it always bugs me to have to wait for paint to dry...LOL!
so....have some fun over at onelittleword....and remember to ENJOY....feel free to remind me to do that too :)
hope you all have a wonderful wednesday!!!!!
xoxoxoxoxxo
gi
i could have written this myself.
we'd have a lot to talk about over a cup of coffee.
love you!
Posted by: stephanie Howell | August 28, 2007 at 10:54 AM