Less Than Perfect Day of Bliss

Some days I feel like super-woman.  I am a super-wife and super-super-mom.  My day passes with ease.  Life is a breeze.   Some days I feel like my feet weigh a hundred pounds.  I can't seem to move them, even though I have a million things to do. 

Some days I take great pride in my ability to keep all the socks matched and neatly placed in their containers.  Some days I couldn't care less if they poke out of the dresser for the duration.

Some days my freshly laundered clothes go directly from the clothes dryer to the dresser, shelves or closet.  Some days I just throw the baskets of clean laundry on the floor and hope it will all magically find its way where its supposed to go.

Some days teaching my child to read is a really, truly easy.  Some days I feel they had to be kidding when they titled this book.  Thankfully tomorrow is another day, a new beginning and prayerfully not another "less than perfect day of bliss".

Belle

It's more than just a {nest}

Home

 It's more than just a nest.  A home is not made of four walls.  That's a house.  A home is filled with sweet laughter and tears, joy and thankfulness, music and dessert, mud and a mop to clean it off the floor, toys scattered all about and laundry galore.

For the last year, my family has been on the adventure of a lifetime, in between here and there, and I've been dreaming of a sweet house we could call our own.  These months haven't been easy, no adventure worth traveling ever is, but if its one thing I've learned throughout this process its this, if the Lord calls you to it, He'll lead you through it.  I also realized it wasn't as much a house I longed for these last few years, as much as a home.  

I had it all along.   

As you sit reading this blog today, remember this.  In the end, its not how beautiful our house was that will matter, but how incredible our lives were while living within the comfort and safety of its walls.

So have a picnic on the living room floor, laugh a little more, give thanks to the Lord, have a family fun night, go for a bike ride...

 resume date night with your husband, throw the Frisbee in the back yard, enjoy the fellowship of family and friends, but whatever you do live life...

...and leave a beautiful legacy!

Live, laugh, love, teach, hope and give.  Because its more than just a house in which you reside.  Its your home, and your home is a representation of your life.  Its a gift from God.  Live it well and above all, may you be blessed!

...where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. 

Luke 12:34 

Belle

Is it just me?

Ever had so many projects you didn't know where to begin?  

That's me.

I have one project I've been trying to complete for some seven years.  I am over 1/2 way through this project.  The material once sewn will make three bedspreads for my sons toddler beds.  {If I ever finish them.} 

One project, I've only had in the works for a couple weeks.  No photos yet, but it is going to be a twiggy wreath.  I'll explain in depth at a later date.  How much later no one knows, but one day I'll show you how to make a twiggy wreath. ; )

So neither project is close to be finished.

Nor are any of the projects in between.  Like this one.  Remember when I mentioned it weeks ago?  I recently manage to paint a third coat of chalkboard paint upon it.   I think it needs one more coat if paint, at the least.  

Hopefully, a fourth coat of paint is the charm because I tripped over the can of paint last week and half of it spilled on the floor so there isn't a whole lot of paint left.  {Just call me tanglefoot.}

{sigh}

Is it just me or have you found that its easier to begin a project than to finish it?

And it isn't encouraging when one of your ideas ends up being a flop.  Like this one. 

 And this one.  

Both were my attempts to make homemade cloth baby diapers.  First a fitted diaper and than a pocket diaper.  Next time I try to sew these I am going to purchase a pattern.  I would have gotten a pattern, but I was trying to save money and time.  {LOL} 

The only other project I actually completed was canning raspberry jam with my Mom a couple months ago and even that didn't end happily ever after.  Half the jam set perfectly.  The other half not so perfectly.  I'll post on that soon(ish).

  

So as you can see I need motivation.

Where to start, where to start...

So I am curious.  What do you do, when you are in need of motivation?  Leave a comment.  I would love to read all your inspiring tips.

belle

simply . living . life