*Beautiful* CHAOS

Sometime last week, I freaked out over the mess in the bedroom. (We all share a room). It was trashed. (It still is!) Toys everywhere, clothes scattered - clean ones, dirty ones, ones whose clean status was indecipherable. EVERYthing was EVERYwhere. I could not see a path from one side of the room to the other, I did not want to wade through it, it was just complete chaos.

Even though it's been 7 months since we've moved in here, it's taking a long time to really figure out where things go. The bedroom is definitely unfinished in that regard.

Anyways, so I called my friend SunDaughter, wailing and moaning, about the mess and how stressed out I felt and how I just couldn't come to her house (even though what the kids really needed was to play with their friends) because *I* needed to clean the bedroom. I cannot relate through the computer how completely irrational I had become.

SunDaughter felt my pain. She empathized, she validated. She was just *there* for me. Then she said "Okay, I want you to hang up the phone with me, grab your camera, get down to 'kid height', crawl around, and take 10 pictures of the beauty you find there."

With a deep sigh, I said okay, and reluctantly picked up the camera.

Here is what I found....

A basket filled with various newspaper clippings, cut-outs, projects, etc.:

Looks like our dollies like to snuggle just as much as we do!

Definitely the *most* beautiful part of the mess:

Some of little*bear's favorites:

A ball that Spider-dove felted:

Dress-ups (the chain belonged to their Mimi, and I love how they get to connect with her through playing with her jewelry):

If I had not been crawling around at kid-height, I wouldn't have felt the warmth of the Sun shine upon my weary face and light up my day:

At kid-height, I was able to find this Lady of the Wood:

As I crawled around on my belly, the kids jumped on my back to join me, and see things through my eyes as I saw things through their eyes...I love how circles are so much a part of our lives:

Sacred objects:

Some of our favorite stories to snuggle up and read together:

The Dragon's Pearl:

And finally, as I stood back up to my regular height, I happened to glance out the window just in time to receive this beautiful message of love from the Universe...

ALL IS WELL.