I have a lot of mixed feelings about today. It’s a day I look forward to… but it’s also a day I dread. Every year, the US Postal Service holiday shipping deadline looms on my calendar, and “Hell Week” is usually crossed off in GIANT letters signifying that nothing else matters that week.
Leaving for a two week long vacation right before our busiest time of the year felt like a giant risk. 😳 But it was the greatest gift I could have given myself. 💕 Eliot and I left home with a clean slate, no orders and a prayer that we’d come back home and not get gobbled up alive by whatever the universe threw our way.
And somehow we didn’t just survive, we thrived. “Hell Week” wasn’t hell. Have we been busy since we returned from Florida, yes. Have I probably been a tyrant about 3D printing, oh yes. Have I checked my print list more than Santa checks his naughty & nice list… definitely yes. 🤣
Is today Monday, Wednesday… I have no idea. (Apparently, it’s Tuesday, but if you ask me in any given moment, I’m sure you’ll get a different answer.) I ate my breakfast today at 1:30 PM. I don’t know what time of day it is, but the sun seems to be setting. I haven’t gone to bed at a "normal time” in days… but for the first time in years, we’ve actually gotten sleep. ("Team No Sleep" didn’t have to report for duty this year!) 🎉
Eliot dropped off a giant pile of mouse ears at the post office this morning. And here I am on what should be the most stressful day of the year… calm. 🙂
We have two more things we’re trying to get out tomorrow… on the actual USPS holiday shipping deadline. I’m not in panic mode. In fact, I don’t even think either of them are holiday gifts. (The desk accessory was actually ordered this morning, and I’m already busy assembling it… just in case. The other item is a pair of mouse ears scheduled to go out by January 7th.) For the first time in forever, we’re not going to be scrambling to get things ready for the deadline.
Sometimes, the universe has a way of showing you that you are right where you’re meant to be. That happened today when I went on Facebook for a few minutes to mindlessly scroll and decompress after getting all of our orders mailed out. I saw a tiny image that somehow felt familiar, so I watched the story. Pair Eyewear shared a customer photo, and it was Marcy who ordered these mouse ears from us a few years ago. I usually don’t even watch their stories… but the universe wanted me to see it. ✨
I guess this is a long way to say that even though I have a lot of mixed feelings about the holiday shipping deadline, even though Eliot and I don’t get much sleep, even though our body clocks don’t exist, even when we get crazy messages from that one customer, even when my Christmas cards are always sent later than planned, even when it’s “Hell Week” and even when it sometimes feels like the endless hours of assembling things will never end… I know this is what I’m meant to be doing. 💕
I’m so proud that making other people smile is my job. It’s an honor that the universe chose us to be some of Santa’s workshop elves. And while the load feels heavy this time of year, it’s so rewarding to make something that brings a little bit of magic to someone else's life! 💖
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