When Life hands you Lemons

I always thought that the saying "When Life hands you Lemons....you make Lemonade" was a little cheeky, but as I sit here writing my blog today (which I haven't written in a long while) I can actually feel what the saying means.

As a person who has suffered with depression, a good part of her life, and still battles the affliction.  Every morning to get up and face the day is a challenge. But I don't let the depression win.  I wake up,  I look my depression in the face and say....back off!! because today is MY day and you can't have me!  It's not always easy to say this to myself, but I welcome the challenge, and because of this, any Lemons life chooses to throw my way, are definitely going to be turned into the biggest darned pitcher of Lemonade that life has ever seen.

I just finished a 3 1/2 week job for Home Goods, where I had to get up at 6a.m. every morning and work over 10 hour days of back breaking and exhausting work.  But I did it!, and I did it with a smile on my face, a positive attitude, and an openness to meet the challenge of this job head on.  The end result was...an AMAZING photo shoot, and a sense of pride that I helped make this job go so smoothly.  I only mention this, because, the old me, would have turned down this big job, and tried to sleep in late every morning and let the depression win.

I  had some disappointing news this past week, as well, and instead of wallowing in despair or succumbing to my battle, I choose to find only the positive in this news, and see it as another challenge to overcome.

One of my dearest Uncles has been in the hospital for over a month now, and is fighting to heal his body....when I visited with him, he had nothing but a big smile on his face and the will to get better. Seeing him and knowing that he is working so hard to get well, reminds me, that we all have challenges to face, and its what we do with those challenges that determines our fate in life.

Whether its an illness of body or of mind, we all have the power within us to take these "Lemons, and make Lemonade"   May you all have a pitcher close by, so that you are always ready to squeeze those Lemons that life throws your way, and your cup will always be overflowing.