OKAY, HERE IT GOES...

I'm grateful for my trials.

It's been a rough couple of months. Starting a new job is always hard, especially after leaving an amazing, once in a life time internship doing what I love to do. This new job is different, oh so different. I price and quote furniture and fabrics. Run errands. Call vendors and wait on drama queens. It's not creative or really all that fun...just a lot of stressed people who might combust at any second.  It's exhausting. But I'm trying really hard to be patient and look for the good. It's not easy. Some days it's not easy at all. Some days I come home and crash on the couch at 8pm. Some days I eat cookies for dinner and the watch tv until it's blurry.

Thankfully I have a very patient husband. He is so kind and tries so hard to keep his crazy wife smiling. 

Anyway, I guess the reason I'm writing tonight is that I had a hard reality today. Among the rough work patch and the other personal everyday trials that I'm working through, I was reminded that my trials are hard, but I think I can handle them...

I overheard two designers meeting up for the first time in a couple of years in the showroom just beyond my office. One mentioned to the other that she had heard that she had had a rough couple of years. The other confirmed and said that last year her house caught on fire and this year she lost her husband. In that moment my heart broke. I was so sad for her. 

But it also brought to my attention all of the things that I have in my life. It reminded me that I am so blessed. I have a wonderful husband, a place to live, food to eat, a testimony of the truth, a great family, good friends, and dreams to look forward to. 

Sometimes life is hard. Sometimes it gives you lemons and sometimes that lemonade you try so hard to make delicious gives you massive heartburn. It's discouraging and painful. But you can learn from it and next time ...make the next batch a little sweeter...