Messy But Beautiful

When I first thought of the sentence for this print, it was during a week of chaos.

It was totally fun chaos, but chaos nonetheless. 

You know the kind: throwing yourself into a project that you can sink your teeth into and enjoying every moment of it.

Inevitably, the rest of life goes by the wayside and can be an absolute mess in a matter of minutes: dishes, bills, papers to sign for school, and for some reason, people still need to eat dinner and the laundry fairy never EVER shows up.

The other part of messy comes in the form of

art shows and bronchitis for your child and more bronchitis and another art show and then....

shingles on your face. 

Yeah. So messy.

The beautiful part is thankfulness in the midst of the mess. Not exactly FOR the mess,

but IN the messiness, finding a reason to say thank you:

a well-timed doctor visit

medicine

tylenol

my couch

my family

Now I'm finished with shows, Brenna's bronchitis has cleared, my shingles have healed and I'm only left with either a stabbing feeling in my head or itching like I want to scratch my face off.

Some beautiful, some messy.

You can find this print in my ETSY shop.

Just in case you or someone you know needs a reminder that even though the laundry fairy never shows up when you need her and you haven't done dishes for four days or you want to put a bag over your face, somehow, somewhere along the way, it ends up being okay.

linking to Paint Party Friday