Gracie has been going to bed promptly at 8:00 ever since Elaine put up the pictures of “other daughters they gave away because they stayed up too late.”
For all readers who may be design challenged like me, this great website pokes fun at all of those too perfect pictures in the catalogs. Complete with snarky comments like the above, it rescues the rest of us from the insanity of trying to make our homes look like a Crate and Barrel or Pottery Barn catalog.
In our Stake Conference in May of this year our Stake President told the following story, of which I will highly paraphrase.
A bishop was counseling a young wife and mother who lived in a little apartment in a ward full of established families and nicer homes. This woman was always depressed and complaining about how small her apartment was, the nice things that she didn't have and dreaming of the big house full of nice things that she wanted, like her neighbors. The bishop counseled her to "count her blessings", serve others, yada yada. ( All good and important things themselves.) When he went back and visited with her he found her happy, cheerful and grateful. The bishop asked what had prompted the abrupt change in her attitude. The woman replied, "I threw out all of the catalogs."
I loved it!!!! All she needed was a change in perspective. Throwing out those catalogs and poking fun at them helps rescue my little home from Pottery Barn Envy. Because doggone it, It's good enough, It's smart enough, and I like it.
