It was so beautiful out yesterday that I left my dirty house and my long to do list and spent the day outside. In the afternoon we went for a walk. The babies were in their triplet stroller and we had another interesting outing. This time people decided to holler out at us from their vehicles. Nice stuff but it was odd. First, when I was crossing the street, a man leaned out and said "mom of triplets?", I nodded yes and he gave me a thumbs up. Huh!? ok.... Then, when I was crossing another street a lady called out 'boy are they cute'. So - nice things at least - but I'm not at all used to being hollered at by strangers. It's so weird. And I can't help but wonder what Caden thinks of it. What a weird public life we suddenly have. It is what it is and like I said before - I might as well laugh and enjoy the benefits - but, did I mention this? - it's still weird!
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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