If I had a dollar for every time I asked myself, “What is life really about?” I’d be a bazillionaire. I honestly don’t get it—it’s like one big roller coaster. Life is great, then something goes wrong, or work and advancing your career is important until it doesn’t matter at all because you have a family member who needs you—you know what I mean, right? So many ups and downs that sometimes we are grateful when things are simply going sideways!

Doug and I had a lot of family here this weekend for Father’s Day. All the kids came, of course, and my MIL, SIL, and nephew were here, too. It was joyful. As I have shared, I live in a small apartment now, so this included people sleeping on the couch and on an air mattress in our 1400 square feet of space. So our “joyful” also included a little messy, chaotic at times, and definitely loud—but always fun! I would love for life to look like the movies, but it just doesn’t. That’s not real.

I still don’t have an answer for, “What is life really about?” because I want the answer to be simple and straightforward and I don’t think it is. I think we are suppose to do our best even though the road is guaranteed to be anything but smooth. I believe our expectations that life is supposed to look like something on Instagram might be causing us some undo stress. And I believe that we all have some really great relationships that are holding us up when the roller coaster takes a deep dive and I for one would like to be more grateful for these people and our relationships. I am really grateful for the people I spent this past weekend with.

Let’s GO! WE GOT THIS!
BETH