OOPSIE DOOPSIE

Such an amazing weekend, you guys. Three day weekends are the sh*t. We took our wakings slow, afternoons unplanned and evenings into the wee hours. We didn’t necessarily say “good-bye” to summer {St. Louis still has its toasty moments}, but we definitely started to prepare for slightly cooler weather and longer nights. A new beginning.
When we were on an evening drive, we noticed the leaves beginning to turn and fall from the trees. It’s crazy to think this could happen right at the end of August, but there it was. A peek into the beginning of fall. The beginning of September…

September is probably one of my favorite months. Not just because it signals the beginning of the fall months but also because of a few other {beginning} celebrations:

//engagement anniversary
//dating anniversary
//most importantly, our precious daughter’s birthday

Huge milestones, friends. A celebration of those magnificent beginnings and experiences. And preparing for another amazing trip around the sun. A new beginning.

I wish I could say as things grow and change, it’s all sugar + spice.
However, the reality is that it’s more like sticky + startling.
And that’s okay.

{Plans change. Hands get tossed up into the air. Moments pass us by.}

That’s something we forget to tell ourselves at the beginning of each year, each month, each new beginning. It’s okay.

It’s okay if we didn’t meet the 27 goals we set for ourselves during the previous month. You know why? Because maybe we bashed the hell out of 10 goals instead of giving a mediocre performance to the entire 27.

Sometimes crossing that goal off of a check-list isn’t as important as truly fulfilling and satisfying the unspoken need of why you placed it on that goal list in the first place.

Instead of making another goal list this month, I encourage all of us to jump into new experiences and just be, regardless if it’s within your comfort zone or so far away from that security blanket that you feel like you will completely fall apart at the seams. {And for the list-makers in all of us, why not shoot for just one great experience.}

And … if you already created that darn September list, as I suspect many of us have, and this needs to pass you by, I understand. But, please remember that there will be a new beginning.

Welcome to September, friends! It’s going to be a great one!! xo