Here I am, a week or so late in post in this. Time has begin to really pick up and fly by as you begin to show new signs of a hidden personality that is slowly fighting through the baby fat. You are talking more and more each day, although it is a very strange language that no one can really understand but we all like to think we do cause we come up with what we think you are thinking and would actually say. Course we will never know what you are thinking, it could be visions of hundreds of floating bottles and nipples full of milk that seem to be just out of your reach. Despite not being able to tell what you are thinking or attempting to get across, one thing is certain, you smile a lot and that has a universal meaning, happiness. You are a happy baby, quick to smile at an unusual sound or gesture, or the same ol’ sound you dad makes for you each day. It is so great to see you grow from one day to the next, you are an amazing and beautiful little girl.

So, all in a day’s work. A cliche that you will probably hear time and time again throughout your life and probably even say a time or two. Most of time it’s a reference to the amount of work that can be crammed into the amount of time available. It is often spoken after completing a difficult or challenge task that requires more than the usual amount of physical or mental strength. Perhaps a simpler way to describe when this is used is at the beginning of the task the words ‘man this is going to take forever,’ or ‘there is no way I am going to be able to finish this,’ is uttered to oneself.

What I have recently realized is that it isn’t just about all the work that is accomplished in a day’s work but instead so much more. It is about the inner you, not giving up until the job is finished, setting a goal and seeing it through. It is the gratification of rising to the challenge and making it look easy. When it comes down to it, it is about the journey to find that hidden fuel tank filled with motivation and determination to continue on and each time you are faced with a challenge, it will be easier to tap into that tank and push through. You know you have got down that journey and found that tank when you catch yourself saying ‘if I can do that, then I can do this,’ or ‘ this is nothing compared to when.’

All in day’s work is also about the people that are there along side you, working toward a coming goal. What you are really doing is a making a memory with that person or group of people that you will recall from time to time. Sure, not all them will be great or pleasant. To be honest, there will be some that you would down right rather erase from your memory altogether and while these have a place in life (they will provide a different type of fuel), they are not the ones I am talking about. Moments in time come and go so quickly that many of us don’t stop and think about what all took place in that moment and the impact it could have or should have on us in the future.  It is about creating a memory with people that begins to define you or them. It creates opportunity to become closer to others by conversing, and finding that there is more to that individual and commonalities among yourselves that perhaps you didn’t notice before. There will be times you are so caught up in ‘just getting it done’ that you miss out on some great things. Basically what it boils down to is at the end, to stop and think and appreciate the time you were given to do the work and the positives of being able to do the work. Trust me, there will always something that you can take away from, maybe a lesson, or funny phase you will tell later. Maybe it will be enhancing a skill or the memory of standing in the rain on a hot summer day, or maybe developing a life long relationship with someone.

Hopefully by the end of reading this I have made it a little clearer that in fact it is all in a day’s work. As you go through life, don’t be afraid of hard work because there is so much you can gain and learn and so much that you will miss out on by taking easy the street.