Hey, It's Okay
Hey, It's Okay....
To wish for a giant bottle of wine when you are stuck in traffic in the pouring down rain, your fuel light comes on, and a child pukes.
To read a book while your husband drives because watching him drive gives you a panic attack.
To get annoyed when you inform your mother of your plans and she says "That's okay," like you need her permission to do anything.
To wish your family could be a little more subtle about which of your children is their favorite or better yet, for them not to actually have a favorite.
To think the sweet potato casserole you made for Thanksgiving dinner was the best thing on the table.
To think your sister needs to chill the F out when it comes to her son.
To be jealous of your sil's amazing weight loss.
To feel a little left out when your siblings talk about all the things that they do together when you aren't there.
To miss your friends and wish you could spend more time with them than your family when you are visiting back home.
To be relieved to be back in your own bed after a long trip.
To know that you probably won't ever catch up with all you missed when you were out of town for a long trip and decide not to even try. It's okay if the delete button is your friend and you just start over fresh.
Joining in with Amber at Airing My Dirty Laundry for Hey, It's Okay: "I got this idea from Glamour magazine. They have a section called Hey, It’s Okay and will list a bunch of things to be okay about. You're welcome to join in and do something like this on your blog. Doesn't have to be on a Tuesday either. Just make sure you link up!"
To read a book while your husband drives because watching him drive gives you a panic attack.
To get annoyed when you inform your mother of your plans and she says "That's okay," like you need her permission to do anything.
To wish your family could be a little more subtle about which of your children is their favorite or better yet, for them not to actually have a favorite.
To think the sweet potato casserole you made for Thanksgiving dinner was the best thing on the table.
To think your sister needs to chill the F out when it comes to her son.
To be jealous of your sil's amazing weight loss.
To feel a little left out when your siblings talk about all the things that they do together when you aren't there.
To miss your friends and wish you could spend more time with them than your family when you are visiting back home.
To be relieved to be back in your own bed after a long trip.
To know that you probably won't ever catch up with all you missed when you were out of town for a long trip and decide not to even try. It's okay if the delete button is your friend and you just start over fresh.
Joining in with Amber at Airing My Dirty Laundry for Hey, It's Okay: "I got this idea from Glamour magazine. They have a section called Hey, It’s Okay and will list a bunch of things to be okay about. You're welcome to join in and do something like this on your blog. Doesn't have to be on a Tuesday either. Just make sure you link up!"
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posted by Shell at
7:00 AM
87 Comments:
I LOVE Glamour. I have a subscription, and Hey, It's Okay is one of the things I make sure I read every week!
I really liked your list, Shell.
The delete button is often my friend, too! And, I smiled REALLY BIG when I read the second one. My husband's driving gives me a panic attack, too!
I love the Hey It's Okay section in Glamour!
Your list is awesome - especially the one about sleeping in your own bed.
Oh, love this girl. We all need a few more moments of reassurances to not buy our worries, right? xo
Glad you're back home Shell! Psst - I bet your sweet potatoes were the best.
Oh, sounds like you need a vacation to recover from this one. Hope things are getting better and of course your food was the best.
Like Jessica said, why do we always seem to need a vacation from the vacation. Although I am not at all sure that visiting family qualifies as a vacation :P
Hope you are able to relax and have that glass of wine. Sounds like you could use it !
Great list. I saw one of your posts or a tweet or something and I just KNEW you home with family over the holidays. And Hey, it's okay to be so grateful to be back home! ;-)
I loved going to see family, but getting to sleep in my own bed and be at our house again is wonderful.
Oh, I LOVE this meme! Great idea. I hope you get a vacation to recover from your vacation. (I hate it when that happens.)
I'm making your sweet potato casserole today, if it makes you feel any better. :)
Family can be so much fun. I know mine is. Or not.
Those sweet potatoes sound delish! It's ok for me to think my broccoli casserole was to die for, right?
Mmm, yum, I LOVE sweet potato casserole. That's one of my favorite dishes ever.
I used to love that column, before I got old and started reading BLOGS instead LOL
My family is just as FUN or dysfunctional, take your pick!!!!
I think you are MORE THAN OK, my sweet potato casserole friend. xo
Love it. It's okay to be relieved when the mandated family time is over. (And in my case this year, it's okay to be thrilled the In-Laws were absent from all festivities!) Hope you got your wine--and a chance to relax at home (vomit-free) at least for a little while. Cheers.
And hey, it's ok to say we're glad you're back. (LoL)
I love this idea. I could think of a few for me!
This is a great idea!
I'm glad to hear these things are okay, because several of them apply to my. Especially that second one. And the sil's weight loss (except it is my cousin). And the delete button....sometimes I think of it as the "sanity restorer" because it is necessary.
Glad to have you back!
I ALWAYS read when DH is driving and we are on long car trips! Course if I hadn't been I might have seen the car that hit us Christmas Eve 2 years ago. The one where we ended up stuck om the side of the highway for 6 hours and then spending Christmas eve in a hotel.
All those things are most definitely okay. And it is okay to not give a crap whether anyone in the comment section thinks your list is okay :)
I always read in the car because....that's my only time to read. But hey, it's ok if I steal your rationale right? Because people would take more kindly to it?
Is it okay that I didn't cook a thing for Thanksgiving?
This was a great post! I am happy to be home again too! I'm starting to think that families at the holidays are what ruin it for me. It only takes one person to make it uncomfortable for the whole group. I think from now on we are just going to say we are snowed in! Yes, even if there is no snow ;-)
well of course your sweet potatoes were the best!
love reading this section every week, and not just because it gives me permission to procrastinate, coffee in hand, while I ponder all the stuff to do on this dreary Monday!
I love this idea! I might have to do one of my own this week!
And it IS OK to use that delete button sometimes. Or the 'mark all as read' button.
I hate telling someone my plans and they say "It's OK" like I was asking. Hello? I am 30 something years old! I am not asking, I am TELLING you what I am going to do.
Sheesh.
Holidays with family are never quite what we hope they'll be, are they?
I might be more jealous of my new mom friends and their weight loss and joke about how I need to have a kid so I can be skinny again.
I just emailed you saying I hope you had a decent weekend. I think I got my answer in this post. Right - on the favorites thing. OMG. And SO right on the sister needing a chill pill about her child. #nottheonlychildintheuniverse
I love sweets and I love potatoes, but I'm not a huge fan of sweet potatoes. I KNOW!!
Love this!! I also bring something to read when we go for long drives in the car with my husband driving. I can't watch the road or I'll have nightmares. Why, for the love of God, do men continue to press the gas pedal forcefully when everyone else in front of them is braking??!!
And I'll bet your sweet potato casserole was the BEST!!!
This is such a lovely idea!
LOVE the list! And I can SO identify with some of those. :o)
But I would be wishing for some dark, imported beer. :o)
It is all okay, isn't it?
Hey, it's also okay to have gained 3 pounds, right? Or not. Geez.
Sweet potato casserole is SO good!!! ;)
Oh the holidays...and the quality family time. I think I'm going to copy the blogger that goes on vacay for Thanksgiving every year...I think that's a fantastic idea! :)
Ah, thank you for that last one. I so needed to hear it. It's been super busy the past two weeks and I've been feeling guilty about not catching up on the blogs. Spending all my time catching up with house cleaning. Wish there was a delete button for laundry, vacuuming, cleaning toilets! Where's my magic wand for that?!
I need this list for those times when I need a moment.
It's okay to want to lock yourself in room when the kids are pulling you in three directions and/or fighting for the 30th time in an hour.
And yes, your own bed is always the best one.
Great list! I sometimes have to put my head down or close my eyes when my husband drives--but I still like him to drive. :)
Family always makes life...interesting. Glad you made it back.
I love what you come up with in your writing. Such good thoughts.
Thanks for entering my photo shoot giveaway. I've got you down.
Leigh
One of my favorite parts of Glamour.
I love your list. Any wish for wine is good with me.
One of my favorite parts of Glamour.
I love your list. Any wish for wine is good with me.
My parents always had their favorites. I was not one of them...I try really hard not to do that to my kids or grandkids.
Sandy
Happy Thanksgiving! Glad your sweet potato casserole worked out :)
Words can't express how much I love this!! I'm in a constant "good enough" mode these days -- I believe "It's Okay" and "Good Enough" are similar siblings of thought.
PS -- nice job on the sweet-potato casserole! I thought my cranberry chutney was the best thing on the table too... no one else gave a shit... excuse me, gave it a shot. But it's okay. At least *I* knew it was awesome, right?!
How about if your family has a least favorite? Because that sucks a little too!
ohh im totally doing this! great idea!!
I can't help but hit delete either when I am away for a while. There is no way that I can catch up on everything, so I just sift through what matters. And I know what you mean about your sister. Mine doesn't have a son (or a child at all, for that matter), but she's waaaay too high strung for my patience. Hope you guys had a great Thanksgiving!
hey, it's okay that I was glad to come into work today after four crazy days with my boys
hey, it's okay that I've done nothing but write at night for the past month and the house has gone in the crapper during that time ;)
Family really shouldn't have favorites but they do. Drives me crazy.
Your list is great! I always wish I could spend more time with my friends when I'm visiting family!
It IS okay!!
Your list rocks! It's nice to know that I'm not the only one that freaks out about my husband's driving.
Glad you're happy to be home! :)
I think it'd be ok to have 2 bottles of wine, lol!
Hey, this is all totally ok! :)
i soo love this idea!!! your family sounds sort of like mine haha!
Yep last night I marked all blogs as read- starting fresh today. I wish I could read in the car- it makes me feel sick. Sounds like you had an interesting Thanksgiving- hope the good out weighed the bad
The "Hey It's OKs" are so fun, aren't they? So, I'm guessing you went out of town for Turkey break and it wasn't exactly the greatest time. That's too bad! And I hope the pukies leave very soon.
I hope your kids didn't notice them playing favorites like you did. :(
It's good to know that some of the stuff I think is okay to think. :) I sometimes wish I could say it out loud too...
Oh my gosh, why'd you list my life in this post? LOL! As far as my DH's driving though, I just squeeze my eyes shut instead of read a book. I figure, God forbid I die from his driving, I don't want to witness it.
I use the delete button a lot more often than I should. I'm bad with keeping up with my reader & everything else... and it's okay.
I hope your son is feeling better.
Ditto on the "getting permission" from your mom thing. I didn't ask!
Thanksgiving just brings out the best in us doesn't it.
"Hey it's ok...to think that my mother in laws turkey could be used as weapons of mass destruction"
OH I can't read while riding I get sick and I can't sleep well either. The slightest curve and I am ready to leap from the car like we just wrecked.. I think I would have rather gone to town or somewhere else then be here with my sisters. Seriously.
Great list..made me laugh! And I agree with the "favorite" child. Like, seriously?!
LOL. I think everyone should chill the f out at one time or another. great idea--
I love your list!
Hey, sometimes it's absolutely okay...
I love this idea!
But I could prob go on and on...haha
Welcome back.. and yes... your list is A-OK ;)
How about wishing that your sister would look at her kids and wake the F up? I think she's forgotten about them. :-(
Hey, at least you didn't crack open the bottle of wine in the car! So, yes, totally okay :-)
thanks for the laughs.
I love this, Shell!
Glad you're back home now. And sometimes, I hit the "mark all as read" button...it feels so good to just start fresh :)
I can't watch my husband drive either...he's a lunatic
Ummmm....except for the fact that my SIL made the awesome sweet potato casserole this year, this could have been my list.
Down to every last Chill the F Out!
So thanks for the smile. And the permission to hit the delete button.
(Especially since I already did.)
XO
I love your list. So entertaining, yet so honest.
I tend to tweet a lot when my husband is driving so I don't have to see how close the cars are in front of us.
Oh I love this - and your list is awesome.
Whew, sounds like you had some stresses this holiday. Me too, me too :-( Hooray for moving on, right?!?
Hilarious and so true that you will never know how close to my reality it is, too.
It's also okay to wish they had people you could pay to potty train your kids.
Great post Shell. As usual.
Love it! And now I feel better because a lot of those would be on my list, too.
Thanks for keeping it real!
great idea and great list. i think the best place for me is the back seat when the hubs is driving. just seems safer back there!
Amen to everything I just read here.
Oh Girl, I feel you on so many levels, especially the mom thing! I know we have different issues, but we've both got mom issues. There was, though, a little part of me that was sad I didn't get to go home, because right now, I'm the one who's had the big weight loss! :)
I love this Hey, It's Okay idea! I find that for the most part spending time with friends is so much less stressful than spending time with family!
It sounds like you need a vacation to recover! I have also learned to hit the delete button when I've been away too. There's not way to catch up on it all.
OMG, I love this. Seriously. But I am meme'd out. But you touched on so many things that I feel. And I am always amazed by your ability to be in my brain.
Love it. Absolutely love it. :)
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