Getting on my feet

  If you have ever witnessed a baby learning how to walk, you know that they don't wake up one morning, stand up, and start walking forevermore.  First they learn to stand, then they walk alongside something while they grasp it the entire way, then they take a few wobbly steps.  Some people call those wobbly steps walking, but I am not one of them.  To me, if you are walking, you are not wobbly at all, you are taking solid steps a greater distance than arm's reach, and you can start and stop standing. 

 

  Yesterday, Ava was walking!!  In my terms too.  However, she is not doing it all of the time and I'm not expecting her to, but she is getting really close to full time walking.  This is exciting in the world of baby!!

 

  You could say I am just learning to walk as well.  I am suuuper excited to start my Etsy shop, but let me tell you, that I can get lost, actually STUCK, in the details.  I read one little sentence about how maybe I need to collect state sales tax and I'm ready to quit!  Or, I don't know what to charge for shipping and I am ready to throw my hands up and say forget it.  Or I am my own worst enemy and think that I have to make one more thing before I have the perfect shop.  Basically, I try to take steps and when I fall (get stuck in the details), I am ready to not get back up again.  Why am I like this?

 

  Fortunately, and thank the Lord for this, I just met a friend who has had 4 different Etsy shops and is patient with me and answers my questions.  I am at the stage of standing and maybe taking a wobbly step at best, but for some reason I want to have woken up yesterday and already been running a marathon.  I am working on being patient in the process, trusting that each time I get up, I am closer to being open for business.  While I wait for those solid steps, I am reminding myself why I want to open an Etsy shop in the first place, and that is to share my creativity with others.  When I am reminded of how much joy it is for me to craft and create, I get excited again.  So, if I can find my way out of the details, and I think I can, you will hear of a shop opening really soon.  Can't wait to share it with you!

 

And I can't wait for Ava to start fully walking too!