What do you do when you realize you can't pop to the shop to buy wrapping paper to wrap a 1st birthday gift??? Search the house and find a pile of gift bags. Re use a bright yellow bag with cars all over it and thoroughly enjoy looking at the gorgeous baby girl pointing out the "broom brooms" What do you do when you realize you haven't got a card or a gift for a friends 30th birthday celebration & its tomorrow??? Make a embarrassing handmade card (I am going to have to get better at this) fill a paper bag full of home grown fejoa's, and go through every book on the book shelf and ask if she has read it. Realize that I am actually the one that has been given the gift when I witness her curious gaze and delighted expression when I hand my good friend her handmade, homegrown and secondhand birthday gift. What do you do when you are going out with your beautifully wild sisters for the first time in 2.5 years and you have the perceived notion that you have nothing to wear? Realize that vowing to not buy brand new has taken away choice, and when you don't have the choice to go and buy a new outfit you don't have options, when you don't have options you put on your only outfit and don't waste time weighing up the other possible outfits (because there are none). Sadly for me (and probably quite a large percentage of the female population) not having the choice to worry about what I was wearing was a very freeing and satisfying feeling. What do you do when your forget your toddlers shoes & your faced with the dilemma of them only wearing worn socks into a specialist appointment??? Have a slight panic attack, run through all the scenarios of what the specialist will think, and how the other mothers will judge, then get over it...its not cold, and its polite to take your shoes off inside anyway. What do you do when your builder rings & says he can start renovations on Wednesday??? I am still trying to work through this one as the walls are knocked down around us. |