Life is like waxing

Life is like waxing-why do you ask? Well, I wax my eyebrows, and every time I do I feel fresh, alert, awake, prettier and I seem to do more in my life. But slowly, little hairs start growing back and I soon have another caterpillar to wax away. Even though they are little hairs, they feel burdernsome, heavy, overpowering, look awful, dark, and take over my face-Istart feeling down, slow, like I just don't care about stuff. If there was just one hair, no worries, I can deal with it for a bit or just pluck it out.

Now in life, each little hair is like dirty dishes, paying bills, comments from family or friends that way you down, eating to much, feeling depressed, fighting, overindulgence. But as I slowly pluck one by one, or wax a strip, I feel like I have a new start.

Take yesterday for example(I waxed my eyebrows and had all of this come to me). I woke up, got Evan off to work, fed Peter, Lucy was still asleep and I laid Peter down again. I almost chose to sleep more, but I was able to pluck that lazy hair out and be productive. I read scriptures, said prayers, did dishes, clean the lazy susan and lined it, cleared off and washed the kitchen counters, vacuumed, showered, did my hair, waxed my eyebrows, and then Lucy woke up. That extra couple of hours I accomplished so much. when in the past I would have thought entitled to more sleep(Even though Evan is off working hard). I would have then woke up feeling overwhelmed with all of my tasks that I had yet to do-and probably procrastinate like I am good at and warned about in blessings. I would have not felt the Spirit because I would have held off praying and reading scriptures and not waxed my eyebrows feeling yucky!

Anyway, maybe this is a bad analogy but I like it. I felt so good yesterday, and have already repeated a lot of that this morning. I am going to try to be better in these areas(for my 2011 and life goals in general):

Reading Scriptures
Personal prayers
Straighten or clean up
Exercise
Play more with Peter and Lucy
budget better
count calories
keep a journal


I hear Lucy waking up, time to let the fun begin:)

CHEERS!