focus on life–week 25- “you are _____!”

Oh this one was a doozy! On Saturday when Sally sent out the prompt asking us to complete this sentence with a positive ending, it sounded simple enough.  I cycled through all sorts of ideas but none really took hold, at least not in time to share.  I thought of a list I saw on Pinterest, or somewhere, once about how to talk to girls.  Ideas about not labelling little girls as “bossy” but “leadership potential” or some such.  I recall a few gems amongst the bulk but can’t find it for the life of me to share.  Seriously I needed this list to put a positive spin on some of the things that popped into my head.

“You are cheap!” becomes “You are thrifty!” which is passable I think.



Hubby is a wonderful, sweet and all around great guy… but he can be clumsy.  He can also manage to be clumsy within a car.  His story is that some “jackass” decided to cut across a parking lot just as he was pulling out of a space   He swerved to avoid the collision and hit a pickup truck.  He re-enacted it for me with a variety of remote controls.  Well, the pickup he hit on the actual tire so there was barely a mark (yahoo!) but his bumper “exploded”.  I would say a quarter of it cracked and fell off.
 
In our household the tools and fixing of things is my domain (see clumsy reference above).  He was very dubious of my suggestion that I could just glue and duct tape it back on, before I had even seen the damage.

“You are arrogant!” more like “You are confident!”

So in fading light I reassembled the bumper with a little finesse, a few choice words and just enough duct tape to make it almost good as new.  There is a portion of the wheel well that I could anchor it all against and it does feel pretty secure.  Of course, we will keep an eye on it so it doesn’t become a safety hazard  - “You are responsible!”

Perhaps this is what Averleigh was talking about a few weeks ago when she looked and me and declared “You are very possible mama!” I tried to figure out what she meant but to no avail.  But it is one of my favourite of her one liners.

Now it’s time to go check out all my “very possible” friends linking up on Sally’s blog over here

ps - hubby consents to having his minor mistakes splashed across the blog.