I was not prepared for today's weather. I don't know where the fall jackets are in our house. As I left the house this morning I said to my daughters, "Just wear a long sleeve shirt and jump a lot at recess. You'll be fine." I won't be winning mom of the year.
So often we are inundated with what life *should* look like based on what we are told by the media, social media and advertisements. According to that world my children should have been wearing matching navy blue pea-coats accessorized with a plaid scarf, riding boots and leggings. As they walked through the house to grab their backpacks there should have been beautiful fall colors thoughtfully added throughout my home with pumpkins scattered here and there.
In real life, my older two might have found a sweater to put on over their long sleeve shirts and my youngest child wore shorts to school. We don't have fall decor added to our home; we have homemade Halloween decorations sprinkled in with our regular furniture and the three pumpkins that we have bought are mini-sized and someone drew on them with permanent marker.
That is our real life: no jackets, homemade Halloween decorations and scribbled on pumpkins. The social media snippet that we show people is just that-a snippet. You don't see everything else and everything else can be sweet, awful, hilarious, joyful, messy, sad, silly-so many more things than "perfect."
Have a good weekend,
Mary
