Bailey was so cute all cuddled up with this teddy bear the other night that I just had to take pictures. I don't blog about him very much but he is certainly part of the family. Caden calls him lailey for some reason and taunts him all the time. Bailey growls a warning at him and Caden completely ignores it and keeps bugging or chasing him. It's pretty funny. Bailey likes to play ball with him now though and sometimes Caden will get my kitchen stool, move it over to the counter and climb up to get Bailey's treats out of the jar and bring some of them to him. He also feeds him his breakfast and supper now. It doesn't all make it into the dish but Bailey cleans it up anyway :)
Stay in your lane. Don't look at other people's papers. Those couple of lines jumped out at me as I read Maria Goff's book " Love Lives Here" It reminded me that we can't all live the same life. Comparisons hold us back and discourage us like nothing else. We have fears of being different when we are SUPPOSED to be different. I grew up trying to fit in and not doing a very good job at it. When I was in my teens I thought I'd try a new approach so I started trying to be the opposite of what I was because I thought that is what everyone else wanted me to be. I am chatty and energetic and I tried to be dainty and quiet. I didn't do a very good job of that either. Yikes. Trying to be someone we're not is exhausting and it doesn't work. We seldom fool anyone or achieve the goal we thought we wanted. What we all really want I think, is to connect with one another and to matter. As an adult I have had goals and held them up against other p...
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