Today I am Enough I was looking for ideas to decorate my kitchen on Pinterest. I found a post that showed and incredible kitchen. It was huge, and open, and a dream. The caption said, “If your kitchen looks like this, Congratulations, you’re winning.” It made me chuckle. I opened it to see what it was going to show. It ended up being 18 variously kitchens that were unique and beautiful – picture perfect.

I didn’t make it to the end before I thought, “NO WONDER!! No wonder we are beating ourselves up all the time!” You guys – this post was telling me that if my kitchen was HUGE (seriously HUGE), open, different, lit perfectly, that I was WINNING.

Why can’t I be “winning” with the kitchen that I currently have? Why does my smaller, normal sized, builder grade cabinets, and linoleum floor make it so I’m not winning? Guess what? It doesn’t! My smaller, normal sized, builder grade cabinet, linoleum floor kitchen makes me awesome! Whatever your kitchen is – makes you awesome too!

Life isn’t a competition to see who is the winner of the best kitchen award! Thank you Pinterest for showing all the moms who spend hundreds, and hundreds of dollars on parties and make all of us feel like I’m not winning the birthday party awards. Pinterest fail of the day – Pinterest telling me I wasn’t winning. They were wrong!

We have to stop! Stop beating yourself up because you don’t do things the way Pinterest shows you they should be. We have to stop beating ourselves up because we “only” throw a regular old birthday party with regular old birthday cake and games. Guess what?! The kids laughed...