I'm not the most hospitable person normally. It's not that I don't want to share my life with people, but I'm terribly embarrassed when people come over to my house and things just aren't perfect. I'm not perfect. I don't claim to be, but still, just the thought of people coming over and judging me is abhorrent to me.
That being said, today I had a tie dye party for our girl scout troop at my house today.
Nerve wracking as it was to open my home, I still did it here. Then there's the fact that I'd never tie dyed in a huge group ever. The thought of bringing dye near 20 kids is frightening on it's own.
Can I just say it's a miracle that I survived the day?
I'm a bundle of stress the whole time, but it still went well. I'm exhausted, but that's mostly stress. I ordered pizza for my family so we had something to eat tonight. Micah's pizza is as easy as a microwave (thank God I had something that would serve as crust on hand).
Why is this so hard for me? Having family around doesn't bother me (unless it's my grandmother) because they know me and know I'm not perfect by any stretch of the imagination. Anyone else is just hard to have around. Today I couldn't get around it, so it happened. Why am I so leery of being hospitable? It's one of those things I really need to work on.
So the tie dye party was a success. I wish I remembered to take pictures among everything else that I was doing. Tony even charged the battery for me today to make sure I could. Too many hats, I guess. I just don't mix photographer with other hats well. I didn't hear a single complaint from parents, and some of them were jumping right in helping out in every way they could. I heard only good things so far.
Anyway, just thought I'd share. I'm releasing stress blogging I guess. One of these days I will have the energy and the gumption to write about my goals for this year...it's still January, right?
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