spt - 100 things edition

i'm a little behind on the spts, two weeks to be exact and so this is a two for one. as a reminder, lelly's spt challenge this month is revisiting our 100 things about me list (mine's on the side) and elaborating a little more on numbers 7, 14, 21, and 28...check out lelly's blog and take the challenge yourself - you won't regret it!

on the with spt. my number fourteen is "i was born with rose colored glasses on my eyes". i've always naturally tried to see the good in everyone and i'm definitely a "the glass is half full" kind of a girl. this can be good, i mean really, it's not bad to have a cheery disposition, even mary poppins taught us that. but it does mean that i sometimes miss the bad stuff that you're supposed to see. the bad stuff that everyone else seems to see. i think that's called niavite. i think "gift of discernment" as come to me later in life, mostly through life experiences and so i would say i'm definitely a better judge of character, especially my own and i'm way better at listening to hair that stands on end when something is not quite right, but it's taken a while to perfect that skill. i still try to see the world with rose colored glasses, i don't think it's an entirely bad thing. in fact, pink is a great thing for drowning out the grey.

my number twenty-one is "i appreciate genuine people and try to be one myself as much as possible". funny how both of these spts are bi-products of growing up and life experience. i guess it's just that the older i get, the less tolerance i have for fake people, investing in them is such a waste of time and energy, i just don't have any extra of either of those things. for a long time i felt like i had to be a certain kind of teenager, then later, a certain kind of mom, a certain kind of housekeeper, homemaker, scraperbooker, photographer, body type (still struggling with this one), the list goes on forever. at some point i realized how dumb that is because i could never really be my best self while persuing someone else's. i don't really think it was meant to be a competition. so i try, as much as i can, to be genuinely me. this means, i'm not the perfect mom, we DO eat white bread here sometimes (GASP!), i DO have an untidy house sometimes and i don't enjoy laundry, not every photograph is award winning and yes i have way too much junk in my trunk. but i'm fun dammit, and i'm learning to embrace all of it. (except my grey hair - this photo is of my very UN-genuine hair that gets dyed every 5-6 weeks!) it's a life long process.