In terms of parenting, marriage, home, clothes 鈥� I will not be a slave to the "Tyranny of Trend" any longer. I am almost 40 years old and no catalog is the boss of me anymore. I am free. I am not bound to spend my precious days on Earth trying to keep up with the Joneses 鈥� because the Joneses are really just a bunch of folks in conference rooms changing 鈥渢rends鈥� rapidly to create fake monthly emergencies for us.
I鈥檓 a grown up now. I know what looks good on me, and that doesn鈥檛 change every three months. I know how I like my house. I like it cute and cozy and a little funky and I like it to feel lived in and worn and I like the things inside of it to work.
That鈥檚 all. And for me 鈥� it鈥檚 fine that my house鈥檚 interior suggests that I might not spend every waking moment thinking about how it looks.
Today I shall keep my perspectacles super-glued to my face and feel insanely GRATEFUL instead of LACKING and I will look at my home and my people and my body and say: THANK YOU. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU. THIS IS ALL MORE THAN GOOD ENOUGH, ALL OF IT.
