saying yes.



i am saying yes.

yes to the bridal show...
yes to a christmas craft fair...
yes to trying a new idea with christmas
photo cards for a close friend...
yes to playing with fimo...
yes to yoga...
yes to letting the kids stay up late on
wednesday nights to watch the middle and
modern family...
yes to hot chocolate in a mug with a tree
on it...
yes to christmas magazines and jotting down ideas...
yes to letting go...
yes to living...
yes to life.

yes to take out tonight.

tuesday night...


things are looking up.

i am caught up on almost all of the editing...
people have been contacted, people are happy...
i am happy...

thinking about taking the plunge
and getting a table at a local bridal show...
yet i feel like i am totally not ready
and it's in about a week
but then i think
i know i could pull it together,
i work better under pressure
{or so i always tell myself....}

i said i would decide by tonight,
yet i am still on the fence.
sigh.
do i just go for it...
say the hell with it...
bite the bullet...
run for home...
see what happens?

or do i stay on safe...

{and in my heart, i keep thinking
mondo beyondo, this was going to be your year...
you should be jumping at this...}

friday i'm in love....


and things are coming around...
i'm feeling better...some of the issues
i talked about earlier are starting to
fade {but not gone...sadly}

but i have to start digging myself
out of this hole that i have let myself
get too comfortable in....

so.

friday i'm in love...
~with the feeling of finally starting to get
caught up again...on photos, on email, on
housework, on drs appts and bills...

~with this movie...

~with what we had for supper last night...

~with letting go and accepting that everything
not only does not have to be perfect
all the time, but it is most like NOT going to
be perfect all the time...let go. let go. let go.
{and that it is OK to let go...}

5 truths on a tuesday...


~i am struggling a little the last couple of weeks.
i have been sick...nothing serious but something
that definitely didn't make me happy...plus
headaches and fatigue...and feeling down...about me...
worried about some serious relationship stuff...
worried about a very close family member who i just
don't know how to help...sometimes i think i should
just let go...i can't fix everything...i can't control it,
i can't be with them 24 hours a day...i can't make
them feel the way i want them to feel...sometimes
i just feel so overwhelmed by it all...by the worry
and the decisions and the responsibility and the
choices and the lack of control and the way it is
constantly like this lately...i guess maybe my kids
are just hitting turbulent ages emotionally...but
i think i have to learn to let go some...
but what is the balance? where is the line between
letting go and disconnecting.

~i don't have 5 truths. i only have that one.
all of everything balled up in one jumbled paragraph
of poor grammar and run on sentences and truth.
somedays, i feel like i am just treading water...
just trying to keep from drowning...
to keep from going under.

~i guess i have one other. no one else knows this.
no one else knows that i am feeling like this right now.
i have this side of me that refuses to let myself
talk about stuff like this out loud...i just can't.
i can't form the words.
i can write them...i can type them...but i can't
admit them out loud. that things are not always
great. that sometimes, things really suck.
{but never out loud. }