One of the reasons why I love this blogging community so much is the exchange of wonderful ideas. I do admit, that it can get exhausting having all of these wonderful ideas at your finger tips. The pressure to do more, make more and be better at it all. So exhausting in fact, that sometimes I just quit. I don’t do more, I don’t make more and I sure don’t care if I’m getting better at it. Such a time happened to me back in the fall when I just quit it all for a while. I felt like I couldn’t compete. I couldn’t keep up. I’ll never be able to sew as good as all of you. I’ll never be able to knit properly. Heck, I can hardly pack my kids lunch and get her out the door on some days much less come up with a cute shot of my cup of tea.
I have found that there has to be a healthy balance to it all. So now I’ve created a folder on my desktop and save ideas I find that I’d like to do someday. I might get to 2% of them and you know what… that’s okay.
I think so many times we look at other peoples lives, either in person or on the blogs and think the grass is so much greener. Her life must be better since she can quilt. She must have it all figured out since she has a craft. I bet she would never yell at her kids. You know what I think? I think we’re all doing just fine. You and me. We are just fine. Just the way we are. We all have our gifts. And as a good friend told me a while back “Good is good enough.” Write that one down. Put it on the fridge. Remind yourself daily so you don’t feel the pressure to be better. You are good enough.
And since it is not one of my gifts to come up with great crafty ideas, I love you crafty mama’s that excel in it. I found both of these ideas on the blogs. I found the bookmark idea from my sweet friend Liz on her blog. You simply take paint samples, round the edges with a scrapbook paper rounder, punch a hole in the top, attach a ribbon, write a sweet phrase and voila. A cute little bookmark to be used as a valentine. I also saw this idea of using a ball jar and filling it with candy to give to the teachers.
And that, my friends, is why I stick to this blogging thing. Not to get overwhelmed with the thoughts that I’m not good enough, but to share in this wonderful community of mamas that create and inspire. To pass on good ideas, to encourage us all that we are all doing just fine and to remind you that ‘good is good enough.’
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