There is no normal. Just ask Rosie.

All week I’ve been telling myself I didn’t have time to blog this week because I have company coming on Friday.

Now that may sound funny to some of you who have achieved home perfection, but rest assured, even after preparing all week, there will be no home perfection. But yes, if company is happening on Friday, it takes me all week to get ready for that, especially Wednesday through Friday.

My solution to this was, “After Friday, I can blog again, and everything will be calmed down and back to normal.”

Haahahahahahahaha

Does life truly ever calm down? Maybe for a minute or two. Maybe. But I already am tracking the next life stressor, as all good and bad events bring some sort of stress.

That’s when I realized how silly I’ve been to put off working on something I enjoy because “things are busy right now,” and they are truly hectic. It was the first week of school, first week of youth group, first week of Awana club, and I’m still figuring out how to arrange everything in this new house, besides all the mess and work created by 6 people. Since company is coming, our current level of tidiness (or lack thereof) simply will not do.

This house must be cleaned and decorated so that we can fool people into thinking we have our acts together!! Ahem. I mean so we can make our guests comfortable, yes, of course, that’s what I meant.

I told Alan I would eat all of his Mike and Ike’s if he didn’t hang wall art last night and vacuum the living room this morning. haha! I’m kidding. No, I did actually insist that he do those things, but I only ate the Mike and Ike’s because he offered them to me. I did not demand them. I normally despise Mike and Ike’s, but he bought these sour ones which were surprisingly satisfying.

No matter how much I am able to improve our house, tonight will be fun, people will eat food, and life will go busily on next week as usual.

Only there is no usual, not really.

There’s always something going on for everyone, not just us. Everyone is busy with something. There are surgeries, health scares, new jobs, new schools, baseball games, solo parenting weeks, exams, holidays, conflicts, plans that don’t work out, plans that do, etc., etc. Life is never la la la happy-go-lucky for long. Normal? There is no normal.

With that said, I might as well sit down and blog for a bit. Read the book. Bake the cake. Run. Go ahead and squeeze in that thing you enjoy. You’re going to have to sit down and recover at some point anyway. Life is short. Make time for the good stuff, right?

Thanks for reading, y’all. It makes me so happy when people bother to read my blog. I hope you all manage to make time for the things you enjoy doing today, even if it’s just watching Downton Abbey.

Happy Friday!

“Now finish the work, so that your eager willingness to do it may be matched by your completion of it, according to your means. For if the willingnesss is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what one does not have.

~2Corinthians 8:11-12