I saw this glyph for ‘create’ and had an epiphany that I feel should not have taken 29 years to realize. One of the things that is constant in my life is that as long as I create, I am happy. There are a billion ways I can be creative. Painting a massive canvas, baking a 12 layer chocolate cake, making a clover headband, weaving a rug, learning Blackbird on the guitar…literally a billion. Even if my creation fails, I still get joy from the process and usually learn something along the way. So create, and be happy.
Let’s Do It!
This summer’s motto: let’s do it! I’ve realized recently that we can’t live life thinking ‘what if ____ happens.’ Living life that way, we’ d miss out on a lot of great memories. We survived taking our 9mo baby on a 12 hour road trip and had an absolutely amazing time. Sometimes we do things that I’m sure people say ‘why are they doing that?’ like taking our bean to Kohl’s at 10:30 this weekend, letting Soph climb into the shower with me with all of her clothes on because she’s being needy or as everyone with babies is leaving the festival for the night, we’re just going! If our girl is happy though, we’re happy. We want her to experience all the awesomness that this world has to offer and we’re not going to say ‘what if ____ happens’ but ‘let’s do it!’
Breathe
It’s summer which means the kids are home and vacations are in full swing! We just had an amazing week visiting our family and when I came home I felt like I needed to unpack everything, wash all the clothes and clean the house?? Why? Sometimes I need to remind myself to just breathe. When I’m feeling anxious or hurried, breathing a few deep breaths really calms me down. How do you calm down?
Summer Lovin’
Hey beach babes! So this past Saturday was summer solstice which makes me super sad!! It means winter and darkness is right around the corner! Not really…I’m just being a bit dramatic. For real though, it does mean that it’ll start getting darker earlier at night and stay dark in the mornings. So while it’s still summer and the days are long, fill them with fun! Spend time outside, drenched in sweat, hair frizzy, getting crazy tan lines because you can! Go to the drive-in, a local carnival, find an apartment pool and beg to be let in if you have to! Just enjoy it!
Organization
I believe this whole heartedly! People, like myself, may get anxious, irritated and disgusted with clutter but I also believe that I really am just too lazy to look for things. If I can’t find something in it’s first two places, I usually give up. I often don’t do craft projects JUST because my craft organization is insane. I do my best to completely stay out of the garage because it is a serious mess. I bought a small hammer, measuring tape and screw driver to keep in the kitchen JUST so I don’t have to go find one of the five we already have. Yes, if we just had LESS, it would be much more manageable and we’d have a place for everything and always be able to find what we’re looking for. In a perfect world. 🙂