monday schmonday

I am not going to stress over...

• the dishwasher that I melted last week
• the fact that every dish I own is dirty and hidden in my melted dishwasher
• the piles of dirty diapers in the nursery right now
• the people I occasionally unintentionally offend
• Lily throwing what little schedule we were on right out the window
• my unmade bed (unmade beds are taken very seriously in this house)
• finding a babysitter so that I can attend class
• my dying chrysanthemums
• weeping angels (from Doctor Who)
• Paul ripping down the beautiful vines around our house
• the ugly paint color still in my front room
• our creaky bathtub waking up our basement tenants
• the empty kitchen pantry 
• our broken sprinkler thing
• the painful cavity that we can't afford to get fixed

instead, I'm going to think about:

• hobbits
• fried okra from my grandmother's garden
• Paul's mission companion and his sweet wife who are coming to visit us next weekend
• the General Conference for our church (also next weekend)
• the poppies that I just planted in my front yard
• my grandmother's chocolate meringue pie
• the fall colors all around me
• the fall temperatures all around me
• the pumpkin chocolate chip scones I will be baking as soon as I have a functioning kitchen again
• Christmas!
• this picture: