MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
We are having a wonderful time on our vacation/family visit. I hope you all are having a great holiday as well.
Don’t forget to count your blessings!! I’m thankful every day for those up there and the hammy-ness of this one down here:
XOXO,
Stef
I’m traveling today, over the river and through the woods, to spend the holidays with family.
Very, very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours! I love and appreciate you.
XOXO,
Stef
My beautifully brave sister in law posted a note to my wonderful mother in law today on Facebook. I read it. I gasped. I loved it immediately.
This is what I need. This is what all women need. How could I have not known about this earlier?
It’s a site called http://bravegirlsclub.com/. The letter I read was from their Daily Truths emails which seem to always start with “A little bird told me . . . ” and then goes on to give you a daily boost.
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE.
I flipped through some of their Daily Truths and this one stuck with me. This is for my girls down in a hole of despair and pain. Baby, it will get better.
I’ll recreate the whole note here and link to it as well so you can see the pretty graphics:
Dear Extraordinary Girl,
The path to the best places for us sometimes must take a trip through the muck to get to the other side of it. Sometimes that truly is the only way.
When we are in the middle of it, it feels senseless and like such a complete waste of time (let alone not very comfortable)When we are in painful places in life, or even just annoyingly uncomfortable places, it’s important to remember that we are headed somewhere else if we want to be.
We do not have to stay stuck there. Sometimes it takes a while to work our way out of it, and sometimes we don’t know how we got there in the first place, but mucky yucky places on the path of life are always temporary if we are willing to work our way out of them.
We are not meant to stay stuck. We are not meant to be stagnant. We are not meant to be in pain for any longer than it is necessary to teach us. We are meant to shine, to fly and to have joy. Even when we are in a place where it’s nearly impossible to do this, there is always a way out of that mucky place. It is always temporary.
Please believe this, beautiful friend.
If you are in a mucky spot, just keep going, keep going ’til you get to the other side of it. It will be SO worth it.
Don’t you dare give up now.
You are so loved.
xoxo
Here’s the link: http://www.bravegirlsclub.com/dailytruths/oct1111.htm.
You tell me what woman doesn’t need a daily affirmation like this and I’ll then prove that woman is really a man. And sometimes men need them too.
YOU ARE SO LOVED. Every one of you.
Stef
We’ve had “management training” courses the last two days at my office. These classes consist of me and half a dozen other managers/supervisors hanging out in a conference room eating candy, playing with toys, occasionally watching videos and talking about how to be better at our jobs.
The important thing here is the candy. (Obviously).
But I do have to say spotting a Martin Sheen lookalike in one of the training videos was cool. It turned out to be Martin Sheen’s brother.
Back to the candy.
I’m not a huge candyholic or anything. I mean, I like specifically what I like and that’s it. (Usually dark chocolate, and especially See’s. Just FYI since, you know, ’tis the season). Wink.
But yesterday the instructor (a totally sweet and knowledgeable gal named Karen) dumped a bag of peppermint candy cane kisses on the table.
I was unperturbed. I don’t even like white chocolate. (It’s not REAL chocolate, you know).
But the other people around me started trying them and flipping out. So I thought what the hay and I tried one. That was the beginning of the end.
Crunchy and smooth. Minty and chocolatey. Perfect combo.
I think our class nearly finished off the bag. No kidding. (By the way, just FYI, the men in the class were so much worse than the ladies at shoveling it down!)
Anyway, to make a short story long, TRY THESE:
Wise Sass 