Getting Back to It!

So life has been life.  The ins and outs of day to day have consumed, swallowed and run roughshod over me.  And this is nothing new, that's life.  Sometimes the all consuming is good, sometimes bad.  Sometimes exhilarating, other times exhausting.  And while I have been striving to make the best of each day and experience only the best that life can give, the negative does creep in. 

The funny thing about negative things, they can snowball so fast!  And suddenly the negative has more presence in your day than you ever intended.  And the negatives are different for everyone.  It could be an attitude, an inconsiderate comment, a misunderstanding.  It could be a person, place or thing or even just a quick trip to the store that started with a melt down from your Love Bug and kept rolling down the "I should have just stayed home" river from there. 

My negatives have really seemed to be accumulating these days.  And lately I have been asking myself the questions we all ask when the bad out weighs the good, "Why does this stuff keep happening?" and "When is it going to end?".  I have completely negated to take any responsibility at all...not for the negative happening but for my reaction to it.  Because although I can't control the unfortunate incidents and inconsiderate people of the world, I can control my actions and reactions to them.  And when I was looking through my pictures last night, it's pictures like these ones, where I realize that I have let the negative take up far too much presences in my life!

I laughed for ten minutes, and I wondered how I could have forgotten about taking this picture.  And then it hit me.  I need to get back!  I need to get back to letting go of the negatives, and dwell on the good things.  And as I looked back at all my pictures from the last month, each picture was a reminder of not only what I loved and enjoyed, but also a reminder of what I had forgotten because I let the presence of the good moments mean less.


Our annual Frankenmuth trip




Carly took her nativity gang for a bus ride.



I want my days to be the all consuming, whole swallowing, exhausting, drop dead days filled with nothing but the positive, good moments.  Will the negatives be there?  Of course, that's life.  But I chose to not have time to dwell on them.  My time is too important for that!