Make Memories

This morning I woke up just about as tired as I was when I fell asleep the night before. I wasn't in a good mood but not in a bad mood either, for some reason I kept thinking "don't sweat the small stuff" over and over in my head all morning. I just figured that was my little pep talk was just to keep my self up, but then Joel called me about 10am. He seemed overwhelmed and upset with a mess in the bathroom left by one of the kids and after I got off the phone I realized that I was supposed to share that with him.

All too often people complain about "the small stuff," the little things that really don't matter. I often find myself getting extremely overwhelmed with all the mom and wife duties that I have. Like once when I came home on trash day and our trash was sitting at the top of the steps after the truck already passed. That set me off, I got mad and started yelling at Joel and acting stupid...all over the trash. Come on Stacy, really its just trash. Instead of letting that ruin my day I could have just set it aside and enjoyed my family. I mean some folks don't have anyone to come home to after a long day at work. We should all be thankful for what you have & and who you have in your life and cherish every moment we have with them instead of "sweating the small stuff."

I work with a cute little crazy lady who's husband passed about 5 years ago. If you wanna learn anything about love and life find yourself a little old lady who is still, even after death madly in love with her husband and talk to her for a few hours. She once shared with me that the relationships we have in life with our friends and family are the things that we are going to look back at 10 years from now...not the fact that the trash didn't get taken out or the fight we had that one night. Every day you are making memories, what you are doing might seem small and meaningless right now but when you look back chances are that moment & those memories are going to be worth more to you then all the cash in this world.

 With all that being said I think that my family & I made some pretty special memories last night at the Strawberry Festival. We left the house about 6ish and I figured that we would be up there for an hour or so tops just like last year, but we didn't make it home until 11pm! All of us had a blast. We walked around taking in everything that was there. It was huge (to me) there were about 2 of each game, rides everywhere, four different stages, and a ton of food vendors with their greasy fair food.

We all took our turn picking our food & I tried to pick healthy which was a Greek place that had sauteed veggies with shrimp, rice, and a salad...of course it happened to be the most expensive, oh well when in Rome right!?! After we ate we walked some more till we found some really cool mimes. They would act for a minute then freeze till someone would give them money, once the money hit the suitcase they would start again! Landon throw in a hand full of change but it didn't buy him much time...they like the paper stuff!

 Then we went to the rides. Joel, Landon, and Emily rode the Farris wheel, Landon and I rode the zero gravity, and then Emily & Landon rode some small age appropriate rides. I loved watching their faces once the ride starts.

We then needed some dessert so Joel and I split a strawberry short cake and the kids had a chocolate covered funnel cake. While we ate the goods we watched a band perform which that of course means the kids HAD to get up and dance in the streets! Mommy is not much of a dancer but I did join... in just a little.

On the way home the kids watched a movie in the back so that they might stay away till we made it home while Joel and I talked about memories I have with my mom. I hope that one day my kids will be able to look back and remember that each day we spent with them was filled with love and that those memories will last a life time.