Someone save me! How do you start a blog? Are there unwritten rules I'm breaking as I type?
I've procrastinated beginning a public blog. It scares me! I feel so vulnerable. I have so many weaknesses, spelling and grammar at the top of that list, or pretty close. What has motivated me more than anything to start blogging is a couple of really pushy friends. Just kidding. I'm really starting this for selfish reasons. I want to have accountability for thinking positive every day. What better way than to tell the world!
This quickly approaching holiday season has made me realize how much I have been lacking in the gratitude department. I have started turning into the Negative Nelly I never wanted to be. I have so much to be grateful for, so much to learn from daily life. The Good Things are there each day, I just need more practice recognizing them.
Today I've learned to be grateful for flooded basements and compromise. Everything downstairs was ruined. Ikea beds and all. I've told my husband for years I wanted to get my daughter a real, solid wood bed. I was thinking pottery barn, he was thinking the hardware store. My husband and I live on two different ends of the financal spectrum. His idea of a bed is two mattresses on the floor, I think more like Restoration Hardware. Don't get me wrong, I adore my husband and his squeeky walk (ha,ha, I hope he reads this). We balance each other. I'm the first to admit that my ideas aren't always financially sound.
Over the last 13 years we've mastered (sort of) the art of compromise. Today was a huge score for both of us! We found a pottery barn Catalina bed with trundle on KSL (our local craigslist), in excellent condition and for $350! Miracles do happen! We are going to have one VERY happy daughter this afternoon.
P.S.....Did I mention I can be long winded?
