Lessons from a Mutha
On Tomatoes:
Future gardeners of the world: take note. There's a reason you should apply the tomato cages BEFORE the tomatoes get big. Because when they get big? It sort of resembles wrestling an octopus into a jewelry box. Seriously, I did major damage to the tomatoes, cried because of our losses (see below) and generally felt bad for manhandling them into the cages. But these things HAD to be done - you can'y just sprawl over my yard, tomatoes. It's not healthy. And mama needs some caprese.
On Cutting Losses:
A boy once told me that I just don't know how to walk away from people at the right time. That I always hold out on the hope that they will come around, that they will apologize, make it right, fix the issue. And the fact of the matter is that there are some people in the world that just disappoint. I wish I could be all Mother Theresa and not Mutha Liz, but seriously folks, my lesson in cutting losses starts in 2012. Actually, maybe they started back in October 2011. There are just times you walk away and you make room in your life for positive, bright light. You say "I wash my hands of you" and you make more space for people like THIS....
On Heart Friends:
We gathered on Saturday to celebrate the next chapter in a sweet, sweet friendship - let the "Last Month of Galveston Haynes" begin! I started the day appropriately in true Rogers-Haynes style: a trip to the produce department of Kroger with hot rollers in my hair. Add champagne and the coolest chicks I know and you've got one heckuva send off.
This girl is my heart friend. And not just because she too has worn hot rollers into Kroger. Or the fact that she owns hot rollers, period. It's because she listens - and shares - and gives great advice. She is THERE. She is a role model for me as a friend, a mother, a parent and a wife. She is quick to laugh, long to anger and she is my "go to" - my running buddy, my shopping buddy, my car pool buddy and, well, my BUDDY. She has taught me so much about being a friend and isn't that what it's all about? In parenting, friendships and relationships? Stretching and growing one another and becoming better people in the process?
On the Chain Links:
And when you're a better friend? You're a better wife. And when you're a better wife? You're a better parent. And all these things connect and weave together and you realize this is the right path to be on.
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