It's only life, we all get through it....

I don't really know what I am going to write about today, but I sometimes, I feel like this:

I had titled this one "Sunshine and rain."  I kinda love this.  It's how I've been feeling lately.  I've come out of my post vacation depression.  Seeing how good things are at home.  I like my job, I have great friends, I have a great family, we are healthy, etc.  Things are good.  But, I also love the confusion in this picture.  Like, you know that there is sunshine, but you don't know just when the rain will come again.  Which is basically life.  There will be rain again, and then sunshine.  It's always right there, you just don't know when it will hit.

I've also been feeling like this:

The all-encompassing mess, which of course, is a shrine to naked barbies.  I cookie jar about to swallow a pink plane.  A random pony trying to join in.  Tinkerbell's fat ass off to the side. Maracas.  This picture is pure chaos, which is also what life has been like recently.  Both brothers at my house, neither steadily working.  Both sleeping late, staying up late, putting my dishes away in the wrong spots, Tony out of town, then back again, school starting, end of summer....chaos.

But, to deal with chaos and the stress, I find the things I like to do and do them.  This leads to things like this:

For Jory's birthday, I made a Pumpkin Nutella Pound Cake with Maple Pecan Glaze.  Was it good?  Yum.  Was it fattening?  Oh my goodness, yes.  But, I enjoyed baking it.  I love hearing about how much people like it, and it helps keep me grounded and calm in my world of naked barbies, third graders that drive you crazy, diaper rash on an almost 4 year old thanks to night time pull up use (and we couldn't identify it - poor kid suffered for a week before we got her to the doctor to tell us it was diaper rash), sunshine and rain.