Saving...I hate asking for help. I mean, I really really really don’t like it. I like to have everything I need available and if I don’t have it, I will figure it out thank you very much. On a recent family vacation we spent 6 marvelous days in Northern Minnesota with my amazing Irish Catholic in-laws.
It was a crazy wonderful week with families coming and going, dogs, bug spray, sun screen, camp fires, staying up late and going to bed sticky.
With all the hub-bub and people in and out there was no such thing as ‘fridge space’ for my coveted greek yogurt or ‘privacy’ everything was shared family style. I was SO UNCOMFORTABLE the first day poking in the fridge and eating something that I had not purchased…making toast with a loaf of bread I did not buy or rocking my baby boy to bed with milk someone else lugged home from the store. I felt like I was not doing my share. I made my hubs take me to the little corner store the next day to buy some of the things I knew my family would demolish in the house (i.e. chunky peanut butter) so I felt a little better, but I have to tell you everyone kept insisting anything in the house was available, no strings attached– JUST TAKE IT!! I tell you — handing me a peanut butter sandwich that I did not buy was extremely unnerving for me. Why is that? Why did I feel like I couldn’t accept the gift of peanut butter and bread from family members that WANTED me to just have some time to relax after traveling across the country with two toddlers?
So I confess, I have a problem. It makes me feel all weird inside to accept things from others… So you can imagine if I have trouble with peanut butter I am going to SURELY have a problem with what I am about to do.…
So, when I started this blog my goal was to write for 6 months and see if there was anyone out there who had anything in common with me. I wanted to answer the question…am I alone, and if not, who are the other women out there like me, are they cool? are they interesting? are they trying to figure out how to make life amazing and if so HOW are they doing that!?!?!
Just so you know I have been able to OVERWHELMINGLY answer yes to my questions.…and seriously the women who I have connected with are more amazing and interesting than I ever thought. So, now that I have answered those pressing questions…what now? What do we do with each other now that we know we exist? (and we know that we are awesome to boot?)…
I have an idea, or two…
But, I don’t want to tell you yet (don’t you hate it when people do that?!?!)
BECAUSE…I want to know what YOU would do first…
So answer this…IF YOU HAD A BILLION DOLLARS WHAT WOULD YOU MAKE OF OUR COMMUNITY? WHAT WOULD YOU DO, WHO WOULD YOU HELP? HOW?
Ok, so once I hear from you…I will let you know what I am thinking and also why it is going to make me super uncomfortable to do it:) stay tuned!!!!
