Making Do

I've always made do when it comes to bags. Once I tried to care about the style of my purse, and got so frustrated with the hassle of style that within a week I was back to using my over the shoulder, simply functional, army green, washable bag that I got years ago from a 70% off table at JCPenny. I'm even worse with my church bag; anyone who has to keep little ones quiet in church, and then organize a primary, teaching, singing and calming fears, knows the value of a good church bag. But again, I have always made do with the free totes you get when you order something in the mail, or the ones you can find at a yard sale for fifty cents. Practical, but sorely lacking in style.

Last week I won my first ever blog giveaway. The prize was a gorgeous tote, the perfect size to replace my ugly, functional church bag. I was very excited. I even modeled it for my kids. Later, I modeled it for my husband. So pretty, perfect and free!

Sunday morning I loaded it up with my primary binder, my kids notebooks, colored pencils and a small bag of cheerios for the little one. It looked so nice that I modeled it again. It sat on my lap all the way to church as I admired its beauty. I joking commented to my husband about my vanity, but seriously, I couldn't help it.

Not five minutes into the meeting, Laser Boy was acting up enough that it was necessary for me to take him out and calm him down. As I stood up to go, my foot caught on the beautiful brown handle of my gorgeous new bag.....causing me to stagger out into the isle....

I recovered gracefully, but the lesson was learned, and comments of tripping on my vanity filled the car on the ride home. Unfortunaley, I already got rid of my humble (and by humble I mean ugly) bag and so I will just have to continue to make do with this pretty bag...ever watching my step.