lighten up dude!!!

It's Tuesday!!!!
It's a cloudy day but still a beautiful one. 
Bruce doesn't have any work scheduled for today, so he's going to hang out with me.
We have our Maggie vet appointment today and a couple of Alex pick ups and drop offs.
Praying Maggie checks out ok and the large lump on her shoulder is nothing but ugly. 
Everyone has that one animal that is their baby and she is mine.

I found some time and energy to cut out 5 doll bodies yesterday.  Now I just need to sew and tea stain them before I can stuff them out.  I don't make my dolls as often as I used to.  They're a lot of work but so cool to make.  Each one has such a different look to it.  I was trying to think of how many I've made.  I have pictures of all but one. I know I've made more than 40, I think.  Each year I would make a few and keep my favorite.  Since we've lived in this house, I've only made  maybe 10 total and kept one santa.  That's probably been 10 years or more.

Todays chore list starts out the same as every days chore list.  Clean the darn kitchen.
Every day I tell myself to clean the kitchen before I go to bed but my kitchen stays open until midnight and I go to bed a 10...right after I make a big mess in it.  :)

The birds are on the front porch stealing cat food from kiki's bowl.  Do they realize they are being cannibals when they eat that food?  That's just wrong. 
I should feed them some seed in the feeder, but the deer keep stealing it.

Mr T is planning on flying back for a visit in November.  I love when I have all my chicks in the nest.  There is something so comforting in that.  When they get together and laugh and do their silly stuff, it just gives my heart peace.  We are a silly family.  In the end none of us can take anything with us other than our memories and we will only want to take the fun, sweet, silly ones. 

My new lease on life moto...... 

I learned a year or so ago that I wanted my life to be full of good stuff and I really didn't want to spend any more time on the drama, grumpy people, or ugly stuff than I absolutely have to.  I used to care what everyone thought.  Now I just don't.  Seriously...I don't.
(why on earth do we all try to fit in a mold instead of being unique?)
I want to enjoy my family and friends, cause I love them.  If they don't like it...... Well, that's just silly and says nothing about me.  If someone is grumpy with me, I ask and make sure I didn't say or do something stupid.  Cause it's a possibility when you talk as much as I do. 
The world needs a serious case of "LIGHTEN UP DUDE".

If we could all create a life that is perfect for us, what would that look like?
Gosh, I've asked this question so many times. 
Does your life fit you?
I'm a Christian woman who loves God more than anything. 
I Know He has certain expectations of us, as His creation.
But....he created us to be unique, not to fit a perfect mold.
My children are so cool and so different.  They are good people.
They are not perfect and I don't expect them to be.  In fact, I get excited when I see them becoming the person they are meant to be.... and then I pray really hard that God is a part of that because He does AMAZING things with the lives of those who love Him.

So....my husband read all my blog posts for the last few days.
He laughs at them and then told me to tell everyone that "he's on to me".
lol!  I should let him "guest post".  :)

I hope everyone has an awesome day.
Take a deep breath and thank the trees and God who grew them.
Love
Shannon

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