Hello lovelies. Happy late Thanksgiving. I hope you stuffed your face and spent time with your fam. I feel like it has been ages since I have done a post. Between finding the right inspiration and doing my share of Signs of Hope, the want to just has not been here. Now that it is cooling off I have been bringing out the layering. It is my favorite time of year for just that reason.
I got this hat at a vintage market several years ago. I re-fall in love with it every year. I love giving this old girl life again. I have several old hats that I love to use to spice up a look. My fashion brain lives in an era long gone, and sometimes I like to pay homage to that. They say that all fashion repeats itself. I am still holding out for that to be true and for super glam to return. What about you?
Outfit details:
- Scarf and Top: Jane.com
- Extra Long Cardigan: Target
- Leggings: JcPenny.com
- Hat: A vintage market
- Shoes: Chinese Laundry
- Cami: Buckle
- Bracelet: Coach
I do not know if you follow me on Instagram or not, but if you do then you probably saw my mini rant about my day. If not, I will fill you in. Yesterday, Jereme and I had a true gem of a day. First let me say that for a month now we have had plumbing issues (among the many) in our rental and we have had a plumber out at least six times. Each time they come I get more discouraged than the time before and the issues do not get fixed. This house has been nothing but problems, but nothing surpasses yesterday.
Yesterday, the plumbers came back. As soon as they got here, I got hit with an extreme case of upset stomach. All I wanted to do was use my bathroom. It was the kind of upset stomach that makes you sweat and want to, well, just die. TMI? Sorry. They were here for hours and I could not use the restroom until they left. They completely ripped our kitchen apart. There was water everywhere and mud tracked all throughout the house that I had to clean. They informed us that they would have to make yet another trip to replace some of the piping under the house and that will be a mess. They still did not fix our bathroom sink that floods the floor if you use it. Oh, and they also found termites under our kitchen. Yay. As if all of that weren't enough, this morning, I also found fleas on my cats. Oh the joys of adulthood.
By the end of the day, I was thinking to myself, " Just keep it coming. Why not?". I was talking with Jereme, on the verge of tears. He said something that made me have a come to Jesus meeting real quick. He said "at least we are far better off than we were at the beginning of our relationship." Boy was he right. He started re-hashing just how bad it truly was. We had to pawn jewelry just to buy Christmas gifts. Our apartment was so cold that you could see your breath and not feel your toes. We ate Ramen every meal. Before I knew it I felt stupid for thinking that today my day was bad. We then started laughing about how bad it was and how our issues no longer felt like issues. At that point, it was the only thing we could do.
I can look at days like yesterday and if nothing else just be thankful that we are not back there. Those were rough times and we are doing far better now than we were then. If you get to feeling like life is punching you in the face, just go there. Think of the bad for just a moment. You will so appreciate the now. Life Is precious and do not let one day get away from you. Do not let the problems of today ruin your day. Laugh it off and move on. I had a teacher in high school tell me something great once. This too shall pass sis. This too shall pass. How true is that? Your problem a year ago seems irrelevant compared to the problem you had today. Right? It will get better.
“THIS TOO SHALL PASS SIS. THIS TOO SHALL PASS.”
I want to leave you with a passage that always helps me when I start worrying about life's problems. God proves this to me over and over and over again. I hope this speaks to you today and you learn that your problems can be eliminated with thankfulness. Thank you so much for stopping by.
Matthew 6: 25-34
25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.