I can do hard things!

I feel like this should be tatted to my forehead. 

In big bold pink letters "I CAN DO HARD THINGS"...

That way when I feel like I can't do them, I remember that my life has been blessed beyond measure! So when I start feeling that dark cloud of self pity come lumbering into "Victoria Land", I need to open my mental closet of blessings and start counting them.

I am often not very good at this. Something can always be better, bigger, or more sparkly. Maybe that is the dancer in me, EVERYTHING needs to be glittery. I often wonder if I was born into a box of glitter, it would explain A LOT! But who really wakes up and says "Wow I Have the Best That This World Has To Offer!"... Not this girl. 

But as my life changes, and I grow up I have realized a number of different things.... 

1. Dropping a newly birthed baby into a box of glitter sounds like a disgusting mess... Mental picture of that is revolting. 

2. I never ever ever ever ever ever... ever want to be Relief Society President. Not because it isn't a wonderful selfless calling, but because it is the one calling that everyone thinks they can do it better than the person doing it... And you have to smile a lot... And I don't smile (unless I am in front of a camera). 

3. No matter what trials I go through in life, or what mistakes I've made/ will make. I CAN DO HARD THINGS. 

I am not 100% sure if it is because I was raised by a US Marine, or because I was raised by a Marine Corps wife, but I am one tough cookie. I have proven to myself that I can look into the mirror at the end of the day and know that I didn't just make it through the day-  I THRIVED today.  I woke up, my beautiful child woke up, my husband has a job, my car has gas in it, and there is food in the house to eat. Maybe, if I am lucky, tonight my husband will take me to a movie and hold my hand :)

I don't need to have the most beautiful home, I don't need to drive a BMW, and I don't need to put make up on today... But today I did make a beautiful Fall wreath (I'll post pictures later), I ate a well balanced lunch with the most adorable Red headed Fox you'll ever meet, and I kissed my husband before he left for work. What more can a girl ask for?!? All the other stuff can just be "other stuff"... Tomorrow we're going to downsize our life even more, and create a little more wiggle room in our monthly budget... frustrating, but important! Again, I CAN DO HARD THINGS... 

Also, I can metaphorically be born into a box of glitter.... And in my mind, It was a glorious event, nothing like what actual childbirth is really like ;)