The Puzzle

a little mental unraveling…

so here it goes….

I see LIFE as a giant puzzle,

and there are many little pieces to that puzzle.

Among all those pieces, there are:

HAPPY

FUN

LOOKS LIKE A PERFECT FAMILY

sort of pieces

 

and these "perfect moment" pieces are shared in photos, and in stories.

BUT....On the flip side

there are moments, even days (as with everyone else)

that the pieces to life's puzzle illustrate the "messy moments"

– an absolute disarray, turmoil, mayhem,

a wreck!!!

But it’s a beautiful wreck,

because we learn so much from those days

if we allow ourselves to!

But for the record, I’ll probably stick to blogging about what makes me happy!

Just so you know...

we have those chaotic, frustrating, and super complicated moments, sometimes days!

Real quick.

One more tidbit of frustration in our home on this "glorious day"…

so......my Bucket List

(trying to accomplish everything on it before the summer is history,

yet attempting and longing not to get uptight if we don’t fulfill everything,

or if it goes completely "NOT how I imagined!")

So my idea today....its raining, can't go outside

....lets build a fort!!!

Cross it off our Bucket List!

The boys were super excited, and we got a really cool fort built

(but everything unraveled before I got a photo!)

They started fighting about what goes inside the fort, and it just got ugly from there! We (Josh & I) both just observed them, and we both must have been thinking the same thing...

"surely one of them will give in,

and they'll stop fighting & work it out"

however,

the screaming got louder,

the punches got harder,

and one of us had to step in,

as they were both very determined. So I said it....

I had had ENOUGH!!!!

"STOP!!!! we're done!!!! the fort is coming down!"

Ohhhh my....

there were tears,

and more tears,

and yelling,

and more yelling....

you get the picture,

TOTAL CHAOS!!!

So behind our "perfect" photos and our stories,

sometimes there are ugly times,

There are hard talks, tears and all the stuff that makes a family real.

We have those times,

and we always will have those times.

Just because I don't write about them,

doesn't mean that they don't exist.
those times are real,

those times are memories too

I'll look back at all the times,

(good and not-so-good)

and appreciate both!

Family is hard work, but ever so rewarding.

And every memory,

every smiling moment,

every season,

every road trip,

every trial that ends with triumph,

every blog post is hard-earned.

But sometimes, the best things in life are hard-earned also!

This is life.

This is real life.

And there will be more chaos.

And there will be more frustration....

But there will also be

more joy.

more laughter.

more smiles.

more moments.

And there will be lots more Love.

And it is ALL worth it.

All of it.

So Bring on Life.

This is our life.

And I Love it!