I won't be the first to say it, and then again, I probably won't be the last:
Sometimes marriage is more rolled eyes and holding your temper than romance.
Sometimes the house WILL NEVER! SEEM! CLEAN!
Sometimes you contract a bout of "food poisoning"? from Chilli's? and have to lay on the couch not even putting a dent on the many to do's for the day
I can't remember where I read it but I wrote it down on a scrap paper beside me:
The art of trading negative thoughts for positive ones.
It sounds kind of gimmicky. And sometimes there are things that a positive spin won't cancel out.
I refuse to be that Suzy Sunshine girl, out of touch with reality telling people to "turn that frown upside down"
But for the petty things in my day, which have the tendency to really bogg me down - It has worked.
My sweet husband took time off from what he was doing yesterday to help me BAKE for a baby shower b/c I was sick/ stressed out. It was a pretty selfless act that need not go unnoticed. (Also due to the stomach thing I contracted...from... Memphis pizza Cafe? the smell of chocolate sickened me- which you can say is a MIRACLE in itself that I went more that 24 hrs not craving chocolate!)
I have a house filled with things I love, many people have lived with far less.
I got to lay on the couch last night...sick... while my sweet puppy dog loved on me and I got some extra reading time in.
Plus, despite the random stomach gargles I feel somewhat better today...
I'm not saying that YOU can be a happier person in these three easy steps! But I will say there is something to focusing on the positive,
But then again, I'm not the first person to say it....
Too true. I try to remind myself that he rushed home tonight from his meeting that he was so excited to be at because I was freaking out over a cut finger on the two year old.
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