Disclaimer: this is not going to be about the popular song. I haven’t even seen the movie Frozen, so I can’t even use the song as a cute example.
This week I start prepping to have my family over for Spring Brunch – also known as Easter Breakfast (except that I’m not religious, so it seems sacrilegious to call it an Easter celebration). I really love to entertain, I do! I like the planning and making special dishes, and I especially love having my family and friends gather and enjoy each others’ company. It truly is one my life’s joys.
However, I have a tendency to want to do a lot. I want to cook everything, and from scratch. I want the house to be perfect, including seasonal hand towels in the bathroom. I want to make Easter egg sugar cookies and decorate them with royal icing colored in pink, yellow, and purple. And of course I want to color eggs with the girls.
Reality sets in around noon on Saturday. Yeah, skip the cookies. Oh, and if I have clean hand towels, I’ll be happy. I have to Let It Go.
The truth is, the most important part is that we gather and enjoy each other’s company. If I become a crazy lady trying to clean up three weeks worth of clutter in three days, and I’m snapping and yelling at my family, and I’m angry and disappointed at the results, then I really have lost.
Let it go.
Let go of the idea that you are June Cleaver, Marissa Mayer, and Martha Stewart all rolled into one.
I will start with my list of all of the things I want to do, and I will work towards doing them all, but I will be editing the list as I go along, deciding if it’s realistic for me to accomplish it or not. I call in help from my husband and kids (and husband is usually the one saying that I “do too much” – but I think he just doesn’t want to help 🙂 and I already get lots of help from my sisters and brothers and mom who all make and bring dishes to the celebration.
However, like my mom says, if it’s too much, or if something catestrophic happened and I couldn’t scramble eggs and bake a ham, we’ll order out Chinese. We’d focus on the important part of being together.
Let it go. Not like the Frozen song. Definitely not the Def Leppard song 🙂 More like the Randy Rogers Band song.
