Inching Along.....

Progress isn't always pretty......

But I happen to think these are gorgeous. 

Progress never happens overnight......

But I am working on patience and living in the small moments....... 

Even where there is chaos there is beauty.

Progress is rarely easy..... 

I really can't argue with that one....

Sometimes it's so hard you feel like crying..or throwing a fit..

or ordering out for a week... 

We all have our coping mechanisms... 

No judgement here.

Progress is rarely linear....

Before:

Now:

You spend a few days, idling. Moving forward, if just by inches....

But then, a bubble bursts...and you push through.  

Not all the way, just enough to have a glimmer of hope...

A moment of Zen.....

And hope, love for this life here, this chaos, this snail's pace is what gets you out of bed the next morning...

if only to inch along again..... 

'Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. 

It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.'

Gerard Way

Sharing with: Imparting Grace, The Shabby Nest, Jennifer Rizzo

Design ADD

On any given day around here, I have a gazillion things to do.  The normal work of the H.E. (household executive) and mother, and then design work, and then the DIY jobs.

But I have a hard time committing all my focus and energy on getting any projects in those later 2 categories done. Not only because my mothering and household jobs suffer if I devote 100% of my day's energy to any design or DIY project, but because I also think I have a specific type of ADD called Design or Project ADD. Therefore several things I'm working on are in various stages of completion, and even though I should be spending ALL my time finishing up my laundry room, or touch up painting 1 of several rooms downstairs, I will do this while right in the middle of said laundry room project.

Before:

This is the garage fridge.  I AM currently working on the laundry room, and I had some left over polka dots from that job, and they made me so giddy when I was applying them in there that I had to put the 15 or so I had left SOMEWHERE!  So voila!

I got these from  Urban Walls on Etsy.  They are so happy. It's really the silliest thing.

All these D.A.D.D. (Design ADD) jobs may may cause delays in my 100% completion of the laundry room.......... the happiness and lightness it adds to my otherwise purely functional and honestly, partly ugly garage is worth it.

Sharing with, ByStephanieLynn, DIY Showoff, My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia, Imparting Grace, Common Ground, Jennifer Rizzo, Craftberry Bush,

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