Never Ever Dull
With every conversation, I always seem to end with "Never a dull moment"....our lives are rich, complex, and beautiful stories. Join me in laughing about everyday things and appreciating life-bumpy roads and all.
You can't always get what you want. -The Rolling Stones Yep, I agree with The Rolling Stones. Here, I sit in front of my fire on a balmy 70 degree day (we don't really need the fire but it's for the ambiance). Christmas tunes blaring and visions of my beautifully decorated tree dancing in my head. I spent the day making pink bows for my wreaths and could see a sweet cottage-style, maybe even farm house style, rustic-ally lovely tree ready to be decorated to complete the look. But you can't always get what you want. We just finished pulling out all the ornaments, sharing memories about who made them or who gave them to us. My kids fight over the placement of their favorite things they made. There is constant changing of the arrangement of ornaments so that their personal favorites are front and center. Then, the Chick Fil-A stuffed cow comes out of the box. How did that get there in the first place? Yes, he has a Santa hat on and even a Santa suit covers most of his body. The fighting over the placement of the ornaments seizes. Now, there is much discussion of where to place the Santa cow that doesn't even fit into the theme of my Christmas tree filled with sweet growing-up memories. What happened to my theme for our Christmas-styled home? Don't I get a say? It is nice, downright incredibly peaceful, to have the fighting of the ornaments stop. It was a completely unanimous decision where the cow's "home" should be on our tree. Unanimous vote by the kids, not me. I'm still holding out for my shabby chic, slightly rustic, sweet look. I argue: But, do we really have to place a big ol' stuffed cow on our tree? He has absolutely nothing to do with our memories...No one could recall how he ended up in our box of ornaments. But yet, he is now sitting in the middle of our tree....actually close to the tree topper (we haven't agreed if that should be a big glittery star that loses the silver shiny specks even if you just look at it or my beautifully created shabby-chic bow). I lost out on getting the Southern Living looking-tree and ended up with a Santa cow holding some banner about "Eat Mor Chikin", but I've gotten more peace and quiet since he found a home nestled in our tree...and that's always a good thing around here. So, The Rolling Stones are absolutely right. You can't always get what you want, but sometimes that's a good thing.
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