The road to happiness is paved with hard work. And a positive attitude. Tears, both happy and sad. Pains of growing and the stagnant waters of loss. And it helps if you have a hot and wonderful husband, a supportive and honest family, a great and rewarding career, a few good and loyal friends, and a pair of rosy colored glasses that sometimes you just have to put on. Throw in a more than adorable toddler with a sassy attitude and an incredible sense of humor for good measure, and you’ve got yourself one successful life. At least, according to me…

  
But what about when one of those things isn’t going the right way? What if you’re husband is dancing all over the last little nerve you have, while you’re PMS-ing?  What about when your family doesn’t like a decision you made? or are making? And all your best friends live in other states so you can’t escape to the local coffee shop for a vent sesh? And everyone you call can’t talk right now? What if you had two cancellations at work when you were relying on that money? What if your toddler breaks a beaded necklace all over tha hardwoods, and paints the couch with his Halloween candy minutes before you must leave for the third showing of your God-forsaken-not-selling house this Sunday?

Cue pink sunglasses. Honestly, if you don’t have one item in your closet, jewelry box or vanity to instantly turn your mood around, go buy some – today. Seriously, it’s Sunday. Go to charming Charlie’s or Targ and just buy something FUN! (Ok so this is my medicine, it may not be yours but the substance in my point is there!)

Let’s all promise eachother something. 

Let’s remember that if someone is hurting, we are all hurting. The biggest problem we. all. have. today, is that we forget that w e  b e l o n g  t o  e a c h o t h e r. 

If one person fails at parenting, we all do. If one person posts an pin-worthy dinner, celebrate that bitch! (Meggie fresh I’m talkin to you 🤗) We all argue with our family members, we all have that one asshole, or two, in our lives that we can’t ever escape. Whoever that may be, seriously, say a prayer for that terrible attitude and move the fuck on. Seriously! Just ignore it, and pray for them, because there is nothing. You can do. That’s their story, and you’re trying to figure out your own. Right? Right. So, If you don’t have one of these aforementioned a-holes in your life, chances are YOU are it 😂 sorry, but you have to skip the trip to Target, and just go to church today, like twice. 

Why did we get so judgey? We all are, honestly I don’t know one person who isn’t. Why do we care so much what our peers, or even worse people who don’t even know us, think about us? Why do we let it eat us up inside and bring it home to our husbands and to our families or bring it out in the world, into our career? When people judge me now, I honestly feel like I want to gouge their eyeballs out, I call it mama-bear complex, or just some anger issues that I never worked out in therapy, but I do think a little “passion” can be healthy for a woman these days. But this is exactly my point, we are all human. We make mistakes! We say the wrong things at the wrong time. We have the world working against us. We put our foot in our mouths. We judge. We fight with our husbands. We raise our voice to our sweet and innocent littles sometimes. So I say this. Let’s take it back to the beginning, the fundamental building blocks of simply co-existing. 

1. Treat others as you wish to be treated.

2. If you have nothing nice to say, say nothing at all.

3. What is popular is not always right. What is right is not always popular.

Remember all these??? 

As for me, I’m trying constantly to continue the evolution of my soul here on planet earth. I’m trying to be positive, and feel all the feels. I’m trying to remember that feeling the pain and the sorrow is just as hard and just as important as feeling that one of a kind, cloud nine feeling. I try to put myself in another persons shoes, it’s in my brain makeup to do this. It kills me, because sometimes I just don’t understand why some people act the way they do, but it’s not for me to figure it out. It’s their journey. I’m just a cameo appearance in the lessons they’re learning here on earth. So, I just worry about me, and sometimes I worry about you, too. And for that we should all be grateful. 

Happy Sunday friends 💜