a·float
adv. & adj.
1. In a floating position or condition.
2. On a boat or ship away from the shore; at sea.
3. In circulation; prevailing: Rumors are afloat.
4. Awash; flooded.
5. Drifting about; moving without guidance.
6. Free or out of difficulty, especially financial difficulty: couldn't keep the business afloat.
None of those quite define how I feel when I say "I'm afloat" but there you go. To me, afloat means surviving although drastically weighed down. :)
This has been a week.
Everything is good-but wow. I haven't had a week this *hard* in months. Nothing in particular, just pressure coming at us from all sorts of directions.
The other night in particular, the kids had taken some sort of "guaranteed to make your child a monster" pill. :) (Said in a completely loving mother manner.) Everything was a fight and by the time dinner came about, I was almost in tears. During dinner, Ethan was literally jumping up and down in his chair and slipped and landed face down on the table. After clearing the blood and ensuring he was ok, I realized I was at *that* point. Break down or laugh. So thankfully, I laughed. We left the dishes on the table and took off.
On the way out the door, I decided to grab my camera. From the window of my studio, I looked out and saw this:
That would be Ethan, picking up rocks to throw at the car. I'm happy to report that I laughed at this.
So off we went-we got ice cream for the kids even though it was raining outside and drove. Away. To the next town. And all of a sudden, there were smiles in the car.
When we came home, I am proud to say that the night ended in a story and everyone went to bed happily. That truly was an accomplishment for the day.
Still, each day has met us with crazy complications and situations. Please don't get the idea that anything is truly wrong, everything has been small, just piled on top of each other it has made for a hard week. But I have so much to be grateful for!
So what do you do when you have reached the end of a truly blah week? Today, the radio is cranked, the windows are open and I'm having a giveaway. I've found that the fastest way to feel a little joy is to do something for someone else. SO. Here we are.
Today's booty includes a full sized bottle of
Soak Wash, provided by my friends at,
Soak Wash. I love this stuff and included a little write up of it in my patterns and they wrote a couple weeks ago to thank me and offer a couple bottles for my readers! I got my favorite, Flora and one other that is equally happy smelling, Aquae.
And my friends at
Hullabaloo, (the gift company that I am working with) are sending me a set of the entire collection to use for giveaways on my blog. So today, I'm doing two prizes. A bottle of Soak wash with an assortment of my
home storage line and
gift line. The two winners will get some of both. We'll give the rest of the home storage and gift line away over the next little bit, so stay tuned.
(Those links will take you to the collection in my store, we have a few more items to get listed, which I will do tonight but most of them are up! We're having some strange glitch with the shipping calculator, so if you order them before it's fixed, the shipping for the larger home dec items will be calculated as if they are patterns so you'll get a happy discount on shipping for a bit. :) But, of course, enter for the freebies here!
To enter, just leave a comment. Tell us what you do to get out of a funk, or leave a happy thought or.. a good healthy recipe? Just something nice and happy.
There now. I do feel better. I'm going to go do some laundry now-that does always make me happy. (really!)
xo
Sandi
I like to take a whirlpool bath with hot water and lots of bubbles. Turn off the lights, light some candles, soft music...it gives me a whole new perspective.