Lessons Learned.....

Everyday we come across people that say or do something that makes a little light in our heads go, ding!  It will either spark an idea, a memory or it will be a phrase that goes straight to your heart and you have an, AHA moment.  We learn lessons everyday, whether we realize it or not.  My lessons in life have been for example....

1.  Make sure your dress is completely out of your tights before you walk back to your office (true story), 2.  Do not allow Cecil to have control of the car window lock button after eating Mexican food,
3.  Car windows do not make you invisible, people can still see pick your nose (listen up all you men out there),
4.  Always check your kitchen sink hand sprayer to make sure your husband has not secured with invisible tape in hopes you have to rinse or clean something right after you put on your favorite outfit (another true story).  Today for me was no exception, it was not a humorous lesson, but a life lesson that hit me profoundly.

In search for the perfect baby gift for a friend's upcoming shower in Indianapolis, congratulations Ben and Miranda......I remembered a lady that I had met at a Pinehurst street fair last Fall and the amazing custom made baby clothes she constructs from vintage quilts and bedspreads.  She is a really fun, upbeat, cool mother of two beautiful girls and while I was chatting with her in her foyer after designing an outfit, she told me the story of a neighbor who's family was devastated by her child being diagnosed with a rare disease.  I too have had a long battle of my own health issues and I always thought I handled everything with positivity and grace.  I always told myself, "I have this disorder, but it doesn't have me".  Somedays, that positivity and grace goes out the window when I think of all the daily life errands and obligations we all put upon ourselves to accomplish.  Not this lady, she has an outlook on life that I have now vowed to adapt to ensure I never lose my positivity when the day holds more than I feel I can accomplish.  No longer will I say, "I have to go to the grocery, I have to go to the gym, or the bank or the cleaners", I will know say, "I get to go to the grocery, I get to go to the gym, the bank or the cleaners".

I feel that way too often we see life as a struggle and as a list of chores we must finish to feel productive; in actuality, life is a gift and positivity is contagious.

Just a little saying to leave you with, today is a gift, that is why they call it the present.