smiling in the mess

Our house is a mess.

A quarter of the kitchen is in the trailer.

Another quarter is in the garage.

Half is in the studio.

My oldest daughter loves to cook for others. To make breakfast she got ingredients out of the trailer fridge and cooked in the tiny little oven in the studio. When her brothers woke up and joined her, she served them with a literal smile on her face. I was sitting across the room working on SnapShops (holla – SnapShop Kids course is launching Monday!!!) watching it all unfold. I snapped this picture with my phone.

It is blurry and a little dark. Gwyneth Paltrow’s eye is staring at me like I should open her cookbook. You can see the construction through the window. The dust on the pendants makes them look ombre.

It is a picture of chaos, disorder, mess, making do….and a huge beaming smile smack dab in the middle.

I have a feeling it is going to be one of my favorite pictures of this season. In the middle of chaos, disorder, mess and making do – big, big smiles because life is good when we are together.