Making Due and Good things to come...

I'm having new furniture delivered today! I'm very excited! I've been wanting new furniture for the past three or four years and this year, was my year. I went to three different stores, sat on couches that I thought I would like, bounced on them, trotted around looking at each and every style, then made my selection. The salesman was pretty amused by me as I took my boots off, flopped down, put my feet up and made myself comfortable. We laughed quite a bit. I told him that my hinny had to be happy on the couch, so I had to make sure by lying down like I would at home! He didn't mind, was very helpful and I walked out of the store after making my purchase on cloud nine! I was now the proud owner of a new living room set!

See, for the past few years, I thought about how much I would like a new living room set, things kept coming up financially that didn't allow for it. So, I would go and rent a steam cleaner, clean up mine, they looked good and I made due. As long as I spiffied things up, I was happy making due. At the same time, every year, I still found myself wanting new furniture. Especially after I would visit friends and see the beautiful decorating they had done, then I would go home and want to do the same.

Yet, I would make due. I would buy paint and paint one room, then do little things that made nice small differences in the house. Clean things out, steam clean the rugs and the couch and that would work nicely. At least, for a little while.

I have worked very hard on my own life in the past number of years and this year, was my turn. I didn't mind making due, sometimes I would feel like I wasn't doing enough. Maybe I didn't have all the nice things I should have. I have to say now though that there isn't a damned thing wrong with making due. I have a nice home, I have good friends, I work hard and the things that came up didn't mean I wasn't doing a good job. Which, I seemed to think from time to time... I was doing a good job and all the fruits of those labors and choices all came together for me this year.

It's clear as day that all along I was doing the right things. The only problem was the belief that would come and go that maybe I wasn't doing enough. Maybe I should have more, maybe I should be doing better or doing things differently. Yet, all the while I was doing what I needed to do for myself at that point in my life.

See, to some, getting new furniture is simply getting new furniture. To me, it's proof positive that with some elbow grease, side stepping the instant gratification aspect, not comparing what I have to what others may "seem" to have and having patience, I see how everything, in time, all comes together. It may not have come as fast as maybe I would have liked it to, this much is true. At the same time I feel so euphoric waiting for those fella's to deliver my furniture today ... I feel very proud of everthing I worked so hard for to get to this point. Including the ups and downs I have had.

See, we shouldn't take for granted the things we already have in life. We need to remember that... sometimes, we need to make due with what we have, instead of thinking that some how we are less than others because we don't have what they do.

You can imaging the deeper appreciation you can have, from these realizations versus not recognizing that we're okay the way we are "right now" ... maybe it's not exactly where we would like to be BUT I tell ya... I have a huge sense of accomplishment beaming over my head right now!

So, here's to making due with what we have, keeping focused on what we would like to have, planning for it, and then... making it happen.

As for me, I'm going to obsessively peer out the window between 7:00 a.m., and 1:00 p.m., for the delivery truck!