Happy soon to be holiday ish..... the season is almost upon us.....

Life is a really rough thing..... Frankly I've gotten to the point that I don't really like it much sometimes but in perspective I don't really don't want it to change. A simple life would mean there's nothing to think about, nothing to ponder, no problems to solve and worst of all it would be mundane. I could never handle that......

So in the years past I've done things, lots of things, mostly normal things really.

1. Cook, clean and general house work
2. Had my daughter at home
3. Taken care of my Tracheostomy dependent son ( Dr.'s appts, melt downs, etc.)
4. Helped take care of of my grandparents
5. Helped with people in the family who don't want to help themselves
6. Held a lot of things in
7. Let a lot of things out
8. Been happy
9. Been sad
10. Lied
11. Cried
12. Laughed
13. Played
14. Finished College Courses
15. Homeschooled boys
16. Held a newborn
17. Spoke the truth
18. Listened to the truth
19. Listened to lies
20. Gossiped
21. Been Gossiped about
22. Been on the receiving end of an argument
23. Been on the giving end of an argument
24. Been a gift giver
25. Been a gift receiver

      I do many of these things 365 days a year and honestly it's pretty real for most of us, minus the tracheostomy thing or having a kid at home ;) But my whole point in this list isn't to keep a tally of what I did or didn't do it's just to show that without much trouble we can all make a list and even check it twice we are all going to find out that at one point or another we've been naughty and we've been nice (well most of us ;))

So as we head into the holiday season where we will most likely stuffed into smaller than necessary spaces with people that we know have made less than great choices in the year (for some of us it will be us not even liking being around ourselves) remember that we all make good and bad ones so lets actually act like it!

The choices we make are no different really just different situations, different outcomes, different consequences and different results. Try to remember that if we are both doing the same thing...... we aren't all that different.