life with greyson + parker: Storybook World

I haven't figured it all out yet...but I think the key to living a really good life...isn't about doing amazing things...I think it's about finding the amazing...in the middle of doing normal everyday things...

Simple things...like bath time...

And cooking dinner...no- seriously...I cooked tonight...and since I don't do it often-- I enjoyed it...

Like staying in your jammies late and eating Gluten-free cinnamon roll goodness...

Or Cinnamon Baked French Toast...AMAZINGNESS...Thank you for both of those goodies, Amy AND for bringing dinner over for me Thursday night...

Our life is a story...just one big storybook adventure...

There are heros...and villains...antagonists and protagonists...love and adventure and boring and bills.

Would you read the story of you? If not...starting today...make yours a good one...make it a great one even...start in little ways...with little choices...pull ever so slightly outside your zone of comfort.

And until they get old enough...we are writing their story too...what a great honor to fill their pages...with wonder and everyday amazing...and to teach them how to write their own story when they are big enough for choices...

How awesome is that Fedora? You can buy it at Gaga Chic in Fig Garden...They even have a Groupon right now!!!

At The Kelly Home, we believe in love...we believe love is a choice but it also just is too...This is a blog to accept and embrace the World...a World chock full of different...remember? Different looks like so many things...so many different people are in this World, thank goodness!...black, white...gay, straight...Autistic, Typical...None of those things are a choice...they just are...and if you are here reading these words- I hope it means you are willing to embrace all kinds of different...because behind every Black, White, Gay, Straight, Autistic, Typical, Tall, Short, Skinny, Fat kid...is probably a Momma like me...hoping with all their might that you will accept their baby too. And PS- Their baby could be 30 months...or 30 years of age...

Thursday evening as I posted a vintage entry of Life With Grey, I was in the dumps...
I didn't think- I am in the dumps...I don't feel like writing so I will in fact NOT write and take a little break for tonight...

I instead thought- I should never write again...I have nothing to feel happy about...I am miserable because of -and then I started a laundry list in my head of things that were making me miserable.
Because part of being a totally emotional person...means I can be very dramatic in my own mind...and everything felt like too too much.

Thursday was the worst day I've had in a long time...and it had nothing to do with Autism...just regular old life...Thursday fully kicked me in the ass. And I wondered- how am I supposed to get through the next (weeks,months,day) feeling like this? But the good news is- the feeling like this feelings- go away...And if it was easy- everyone would be happy every single day...some days it is easy. Some days--it just is--but some days it is a choice.. finding that happy...because sometimes happy likes to play hide and go seek....and choosing pissed off or annoyed or angry is so much easier on those kinds of days....

I tell you all of this- because if you too are a real honest to goodness human being here on the Planet Earth- you might have days like this too.

I forgot to look for it last Thursday...my happy...I forget sometimes too friend...

I had no idea it came in a pill...

But thankfully on Friday- Our story took a turn for the Happy...

We went to The Fresno State Farm and explored... (thanks for the suggestion Anne and Liv!)

It was amazing and simple goodness....no iphones or pads or TV's in sight...