The Highs and The Lows

It’s crazy to me how moods can go from so high to so low.  A few days ago, I was feeling so overwhelmed.  I was so stressed.  My chest felt tight for days on end.  I was irritable.  My temper was short.  I was zoning out.  I felt so behind.  My house was such a mess.  I had been sick with the flu, then it took forever to recover.  I was down almost 3 weeks.  I was on so much medications, I literally had no voice, I had no strength, I got so short of breath so easily, my body ached so bad.  It was a very long couple of weeks.

It was my daughter’s birthday the other day.  I usually go all out for their birthdays but I didn’t have it in me.  So I did the “bare necessities” to make her birthday special.  Grandma made her cake as always.  She was turning 7, so I separated her gifts into 7 different gift bags.  Some of it was simple little dollars store stuff.  Some of it was a little bit bigger.  Either way she enjoyed her gifts!  On her birthday, she woke up to the entire kitchen decorated for her birthday!  She had mentioned she wanted cookies, so I ordered specialty cookies from a friend of mine so she had personalized cookies.

But we also had Easter treat packs for her to hand out in class.  She’s only in first grade.  So I like to try and make things special for her.  She’s been really into “galaxy” stuff now, so I decided to make her a galaxy themed gift pack.  But I didn’t have a lot of money to spend, so I decided to DIY a lot of it.  I made color your own galaxy bookmarks, made galaxy themed beaded bracelets, I cut out star dumdum wrappers.  And I threw in some galaxy stickers, a mini galaxy themed slime and a little star confetti toy.  They turned out so cute.  And she loved it so much!

Then Easter morning.  I made sure the girls got semi even baskets.  Their different ages so they have different interests.  But they both got some jewelry.  I ordered my youngest a bunch of earring sets because she’s recently interested in jewelry.  But I bought in bulk and they came in packaged in little ziplock bags which looked terrible honestly.  So I decided to upscale it.  I cut out earring backs with my Cricut and put them in cute jewelry bags.  They looked adorable!   Then they all got put into little separators so they could see them all!  It turned out great!

I managed to get most of the house straightened up.  It’s not perfect, but not embarrassing either.  One of these days I’ll get it to where I want it to be, but until then I’ll take the wins where I can get them.

I’ve been trying to get my KaitleeKares Butterflies up and running again, but trying to find a way to make the tags more weather friendly and easier to get them tagged.  I finally figured out a way to get the tags printed nicely and easily.  So I can finally start working on getting those sent again.  I’m hoping to be able to send hundreds out again.  Eventually hopefully thousands throughout the world.  Keep Tara Kaitlee’s memory alive while reminding others how amazing they truly are.

I hope you have a great day.  You are beautiful.  You are kind.  You are loved.  You are worthy.  Please don’t forget that.