A YEAR IN PICTURES: DAY 25

Hanging in there.

It seems like I am losing myself these days. I am always in pain and I feel like it is taking away my sense of humor, my ability to smile and laugh, my sense of being. 

Hannah has a small tub of toys she plays with when she takes a bath and at the end of bath time all the toys go back in the tub, except for this guy. Every time she hangs him by the tail on the soap dish. 

And every time I go into the bathroom, no matter how sick, I smile when I see him. 

I don’t know why, I guess because he is so cute, or because Hannah finds him so special that she hangs him up. But he makes me smile.

And when I smile, I am reminded that I can still smile, that I still find a way to find humor in the little things, that I am not so lost after all. 

So today, when I saw him, I smiled and thought, “Yup, I am still hanging in there, just like my cute buddy hanging on the soap dish.”