Be like the rubber duckie....

As Monday has descended upon us, I am looking back to a weekend that was full of.... well, it's hard to explain. Have you ever had the feeling of being held under a pressure so intense that you wonder how you'll ever rise up? And no matter how you move, how you struggle, the pressure still remains... but you still move, you still struggle. You move right, left, forward, backward, around... any way you can.

This reminds me so much of the rubber duckie. So many of us as children (and now our children) affectionately splashed and played in the bath tub with a rubber duckie. Our curiosity of why the rubber duckie refused to stay under water continued to pull at us and we could not resist the urge to submerge our friend under the water in an effort to convince them to stay there. But to our dismay, our rubber duckie friend just wouldn't concede.

The question should not be "Why wouldn't our rubber duckie stay under the pressure of the water?" but "How can we, like the rubber duckie, find the strength to bounce back?". To stay the course.. to never concede to the pressures of our daily lives that try to pull us down.

I, like the rubber duckie, must continue to push back against the pressure, and I do everyday. Because in the end, it is the pressure and the things that try to keep us down, under the water that make us stronger. Those pressures are what make us fighters. AND I AM A FIGHTER!

For those of you who are wondering about the rubber duckie in the photos..

For her birthday, Anna Grace was given a gift from our good friends, The Pattersons. The duckie came in a box with instructions to paint it. So this past week, AGB and I sat down and created this masterpiece together! I have been trying to do at least one activity a day with AGB, which all of us working mothers know is hard to accomplish. The rubber duckie took us three days to complete, but it was three evening well spent.

Beth