What May Taught Me.

To focus on the things that are in my control. I’m pretty sure this has been on a “what I learned this month” list before, so obviously I still have more to learn about it. But I thought a lot about it this month. I’m the kind of person who can drive myself crazy thinking about all the things I have absolutely no control over. And how stupid is that? What a way to waste a day, right? I’m working on focusing on all the things I can control, and trying to just roll with the punches for the rest. 

To be the best version of myself. I wrote about it here. I’m working on changing my perspective to focus on this, and it’s been really amazing. 

That I crave experiences. This is how I like to spend my money. I want vacations and trips and memories. I want to go to dinner not because I don’t want to cook (I mean, I probably don’t want to cook), but because I want the experiences of sitting on a patio and laughing and talking over food. It doesn’t bother me to drop a lot of money on vacation and have to pinch pennies for the rest of the month, because I want to make long-lasting memories of sitting on the beach and eating nachos while my babe laughs and plays football. 

That as much as I love a good to-do list, I don’t need to live and die by them. I had a lot of things to do on Thursday, but the sun came out for the first time in what felt like forever. So I took Jack to the pool, and we stayed there until the rain came back. This meant the dishes didn’t get done. I didn’t catch up on laundry. Emails went unresponded to. And you know what? It was every bit worth it. If I had judged the day by how many things I marked off my to-do list, it would’ve looked like a failure. But in reality, it was anything but. 

What did this month teach you?