Don't cry because it's over.
Smile because it happened.
~Dr. Seuss
Such a wise "doctor".....recently my daughter had a sleepover. It was with her cousins, who are older than her, but all of them play so well together. It's cute. And they always strive to include The Boy in their playtime. It was a good chunk of time she got to spend with her cousins.
One of her cousins lives full time in Florida, so she rarely gets to see her. At Thanksgiving she got to spend a few hours with her cousin from Florida and when we got home, she had a meltdown because she wanted to stay and sleepover with her cousins. I guess she felt left out. So I told her we could have one the next time her cousin came up from Florida.
I arranged it with our cousin and I didn't tell Little Miss until they had pulled up to the house with their sleeping bags. She was THRILLED and got to have a sleepover, then the whole next day they played together for hours until the girls got picked up.
Within minutes of their departure, my daughter started crying and I asked her "should we have not had a sleepover? Is this how you want to behave after the fun you had? If that's the case, it's not worth having the sleepover if you cry for hours following the ending of it."
A few days later I saw the above quote in a magazine......and I thought immediately of our sleepover ending and the tears starting. And then I looked at the calendar and realized that it was Day 29 of My IsaJourney.......and I felt a little like crying, but I didn't. It's not over, as I will be maintaining with my products, but this JOURNEY has been such a dream for me.
It has changed my life and I'm smiling because it happened. I'm smiling because I said YES to Lisa that day on the phone. I'm smiling because I ENJOY getting up each morning, bopping into the kids' rooms and being the ray of sunshine in the morning they deserve, instead of the doom and gloom cloud I always use to be.
I'm smiling because my kids deserve better and I AM ABLE TO GIVE THEM that "better" I've always attempted to give them, but always fell short of.
Today was their first day back at school and I'm always sad to return them to school, but I was smiling because we had such a great week together. I enjoy them even more than I did before. My life is my kids, my family and...that's it. Everything else just fits into my life when I want it to, including my blog, my Isagenix business and my book writing.
The difference Isagenix has made?NO STRESS anymore. There's no longer that feeling like all I do every day is tread water, making no progress and my whole world is closing in on me! Who the heck wants to feel like they spent the entire day "doing" but getting nothing DONE? Not me. Not anymore!
My life has become MINE. And I love it. LOVE IT. And that's how I roll!
One of her cousins lives full time in Florida, so she rarely gets to see her. At Thanksgiving she got to spend a few hours with her cousin from Florida and when we got home, she had a meltdown because she wanted to stay and sleepover with her cousins. I guess she felt left out. So I told her we could have one the next time her cousin came up from Florida.
I arranged it with our cousin and I didn't tell Little Miss until they had pulled up to the house with their sleeping bags. She was THRILLED and got to have a sleepover, then the whole next day they played together for hours until the girls got picked up.
Within minutes of their departure, my daughter started crying and I asked her "should we have not had a sleepover? Is this how you want to behave after the fun you had? If that's the case, it's not worth having the sleepover if you cry for hours following the ending of it."
A few days later I saw the above quote in a magazine......and I thought immediately of our sleepover ending and the tears starting. And then I looked at the calendar and realized that it was Day 29 of My IsaJourney.......and I felt a little like crying, but I didn't. It's not over, as I will be maintaining with my products, but this JOURNEY has been such a dream for me.
It has changed my life and I'm smiling because it happened. I'm smiling because I said YES to Lisa that day on the phone. I'm smiling because I ENJOY getting up each morning, bopping into the kids' rooms and being the ray of sunshine in the morning they deserve, instead of the doom and gloom cloud I always use to be.
I'm smiling because my kids deserve better and I AM ABLE TO GIVE THEM that "better" I've always attempted to give them, but always fell short of.
Today was their first day back at school and I'm always sad to return them to school, but I was smiling because we had such a great week together. I enjoy them even more than I did before. My life is my kids, my family and...that's it. Everything else just fits into my life when I want it to, including my blog, my Isagenix business and my book writing.
The difference Isagenix has made?NO STRESS anymore. There's no longer that feeling like all I do every day is tread water, making no progress and my whole world is closing in on me! Who the heck wants to feel like they spent the entire day "doing" but getting nothing DONE? Not me. Not anymore!
My life has become MINE. And I love it. LOVE IT. And that's how I roll!
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