Monday, February 06, 2012
~Lessons Learned er,uh...Learning~
.......Somebody turned 2!.......
         
Just a few things I'm learning in life....
1. You have to be okay with being misunderstood, misrepresented, and misquoted.
2. People are complicated. If you have even just one or two friends who love you faults and all, if you can stomach their idiosyncrasies, if you can tolerate their junk and they can tolerate your junk, if they are loyal to you and you to them, you're blessed. People want to be loved-warts and all.
3. Your kids are going to struggle. Get used to the idea.
4. If you aren't really careful, you can stay so physically busy or mentally distracted, you miss hours of opportunity and countless teachable moments with your kids....even if you're with them all day. Don't do that. Colossal mistake.
5. There's no place like home. (Turns out, Dorothy had the right idea)
6. There's always more to do. More to get. More to learn. More to see. More to say. I think it's true, less really is more. Stop looking for more and appreciate what is. You miss the present looking for the future. Stop. Breathe.
7. Go to bed when you're tired. A little rest does a world of good for a tired Mama.
8. Band of Brothers is the best movie/mini series ever created.
9. Don't waste time at 8:30 at night trying to create a 10 item list when you only have 8 things to say. Sitting at a computer can be a huge waste of time. Watch something on your dvr and fold some clothes.
~stacey
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