the pebble for day three was VERY small.  the smallest ever.  it was about just breathing in and out.

easy, you think?  sometimes.  but sometimes, it can be really tricky!

today, the kids were in a wedding.  lovely friend getting married and helicopter and cricket got to be the ring bearer and flower girl.  so i started the day going to the rental house with the kiddos to get the house rekeyed.  done.  then the children and i went to work because i unexpectedly needed to help with a few things.  pizza ordered for lunch.  work mostly done.  off to home we go.

two hours left until we need to be there and the following needed to be accomplished:  showering, doing my nails with a new system that i got in the mail, bathing the kids, getting everyone dressed, finishing the work project and not killing anyone.  with about an hour left, i realized we were seriously not going to make it.  panic began rising.

understand this, though.  at no time was anyone’s life in danger.  we weren’t really even in danger of being late.  we were a TINY part of a wedding that had many more beautiful elements.  and the biggest threat was arriving 10 minutes late with mildly messier nails than i wanted (i was trying shellack for the first time at home and it was more difficult than i imagined).

BUT HERE IS THE SMALL THING.  rather than freak out and start to yell at everyone as i would typically do, i decided just to take a deep breath.  just realize this was not the end.

AND IT WORKED!  i completely returned to zero.  i came back.  the mean horrible witch that i was becoming morphed right back into glinda.  and then i got to be fun!  i got to be a help instead of a crazy person when we DID arrive three minutes late.  it was awesome.  i am going to keep this stone on tap!

best of all, i got to focus on why we were there.  to CELEBRATE!  to enjoy!  and we did!  it was WONDERFUL!  thank heavens for that little pebble and all the change it made.

i adore you!

so today the pebble i want to move is water.  but water isn’t a stone.  it’s the thing that wears stones away.  it’s actually amazing.  it makes up a huge percentage of the earth…a huge percentage of my body.  for me, it is my nemesis.

i love coke.  i love diet coke.  i love coke zero.  recently, i gave up diet coke for regular coke because diet coke is essentially poison sludge.  regular coke?  sugary sludge.  so water it is.  so today i drank water.  tomorrow i will drink water.  for these 31 days, i will move the water pebble every day.    and i will have cocktails.  because what is life without cocktails?

i just have one thing to say about all this.  WHY DOESN’T IT TASTE LIKE ANYTHING?  flavor!  flavor!  my kingdom for a measly TASTE!

i adore you!

So, hello, blog readers!  It has been QUITE a drought in my blogging.  I have missed you.  I hoped you have missed me.  Otherwise it would be kinda awkward.

So there was a challenge on a bloggers’ Facebook page that I follow to write about a topic that interests you for 31 days.  Every day.  Write something new every day.  Every. Single. Day.  For THIRTY ONE of them.  But, I decided I would do it.    But what topic?  What thing do I love that much?

So, if you have been around for a while, you know I love the idea of small things.  That I truly believe that by doing small thing after small thing, we could find ourselves new people in a new world.    My challenge:  try a new small thing every day.

What small things?  All of them.  I am going to do small things that support justice, that encourage those who need it, that make me a better person.  Not like random acts of kindness, although hopefully kindness will play a key role, but things that will pave the roads that I hope are being paved.  Putting my little pebbles on the paths that I want to walk down.

Now, I know it won’t be easy.  (In my original draft, I wrote that it WOULD be easy.  Hopefully that was a Freudian slip and it will surprise me with it’s simplicity.  But I think not.)  I am not EXCEPTIONAL at follow through.  Frankly, I suck at it.  And small things aren’t awesome.  They are deceptive little suckers. Seem easy; actually suck.  But I want to do it.  So, I’m gonna.  Hear that small things?  I’m GONNA.

So, my small thing for today:  this blog.  Getting started.  Because even starting can sometimes be an intimidating small thing.  I hope you will enjoy going with me.  Or you can just delete the emails when you get them.  (I will never know!)

I ADORE YOU!