{Why I Blog} Real Life

Hey Lovelies!  Happy Tuesday to ya!
Sadly jet lag is wrecking havoc on my body.  I was up at 3:30 this morning. 
Lying in bed with zero sleepies in your mind is dumb.  So I kissed Hubs and took off for Wal-Mart to complete my unfinished shopping list from yesterday.
Oh yes.  I also ate a bowl of Fruit Loops that I had been craving ALL.NIGHT.LONG.
Amazing how much you can get done in the middle of the night, no?!

In other random news, my computer charger cord went up in smoking ruins yesterday.
This means my last pictures from China and the awesome shopping stuffs will have to wait a few more days.
{cursed $60 replacement charger.}

Until then, here's part three on why I blog from, which I scribbled in the Beijing airport.
xoxo

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Anyone who has known me long enough to learn my name, knows that I try to live with a glass half full attitude.  

{except on those days. . .ya know?!}

Yet one of my biggest hopes in blogging is that this Lookbook would be a place of honest transparency.  A place where we aren't afraid to be real.  A place where those horrible, hard moments in life can be shared.  A place that acknowledges that sometimes life sucks, but God is still good.

Blogging can easily become a game of comparisons.  

Like why can't I take amazing outfit photos like her?  

Or have a rocket-growth readership like her?

Or why can't we have money to do all our house projects like them?

Or indulge in frequent world travels like these triple sisters?

Or have her carefree, adorable style?

Perfect hair like . . .
Or plan adorable parties like . . .

The game goes on and on until we run ourselves into a mad fury.

Oh that we would embrace our weaknesses.

Celebrate our strengths.

Thank God for the gifts He daily loads us with. 

This is where we can find peace.

Deep in our hearts.

Shattering the glass walls that often are built around people is one of the reasons I started the Friday Files.  They are the posts where optimism and love-struck delight are temporarily placed on the shelf.  To honestly share from our week.  From those longs debates Hubs and I have over how to properly make the bed to our financial struggles to everything in between.

Then I invite you to join with us.  Because always flowing over, around and through it the pure goodness of God.  And that is what we truly celebrate.