i bought myself a sweet little bracelet last week that has this little message engraved into it.
choose joy.
so simple but very important
so often lately i have had to remind myself to choose to be happy. it really is all a choice.
it is a very hard choice to make when you are stressed and overwhelmed too.
i look around my house right now and it totally looks like a daycare center. not even exaggerating. i just havent really had the extra time to clean up around here lately.
i have toys and blankets and crayons and legos spread out everywhere. BUT my house is super colorful because of it. so when i look out on my living room floor and see the out of control mess filling it i choose to be grateful. what would my life be like without those little wild kids creating that out of control mess?
not nearly as colorful… or happy or beautiful or full or love. also those kids are just really freaking funny 
so i hope this Christmas you CHOOSE to relax. who gives a crap if you havent finished your Christmas shopping or sent out all of your cards yet?
i hope you CHOOSE to give your family your time and love too instead of just new shiny things.
and i hope you CHOOSE joy
speaking of….
i had the bright idea of photographing my children yesterday afternoon on my way to pick them up from school. it was a yucky overcast rainy day but i knew it was “now or never.”
so i rushed them home and threw clothes on them. we didnt have time to really fix their hair or clean faces or worry about matching.
we walked down the street and trespassed into a neighbors back yard and i bribed them more than any human has ever bribed before!!!!
of course they didnt do a thing that i asked them to do but if there is one thing i have learned from my job it is this…
KIDS DO NOT DO WHAT YOU WANT THEM TO DO.
and im ok with that.
Beckett fell in the mud and picked his nose and ran around like a wild man while raeleigh continued posing like she was straight out of a really bad olan mills photo circa 1985.
it did not go well but i kept a smile on my face and enjoyed them for that few minutes of alone time.
the photos are far from great but i still brought them to the horrid evil land of wal mart and let them each pick a goodie.
beckett = a disney cars mater toy.
raeleigh = super cheap cell phone walkie talkies.
dont let me fool you……
i am not going to be winning any mother of the year awards. but that is sort of the point of this blog post. ive spent the last month and a half neglecting my family and its something i thought i HAD to do. in reality i chose to do it though. i chose to put my work over them and i will never do that again.
along with my business, i am a work in progress.
by admin
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