Tonight one of my dreams came true. I am that person who loves all the traditions that a family makes together. I want the pictures with Santa and the easter egg hunts and all that stuff. I had hoped for years to be able to do these things with my kids and finally that time has come. And it's just beginning. There are so many more memories to be made. It's just wonderful. Anyway - what we did tonight, as you can see by the picture, is make a gingerbread house. The babies weren't much help this year. This time it's Caden's gingerbread house. He had lots of fun and he ate lots of icing and candy. He didn't know what the icing was at first. Justin had to force him to taste it but once he'd had some.... we'll you can see for yourself.
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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