Living a Balanced Life

We got home from our Christmas holiday yesterday. It went pretty much as expected. As I predicted before,we did get a couple of comments about how Ocean is not reading yet (she's only six and I believe in child-led reading), one educational Christmas gift, and one comment about doing elimination communication. And none of it was that big of a deal. The only comment that really annoyed me was when my mom said (of baby Peace), "Where's all her hair? Andrea Rivard's baby has lots of hair." But, I guess that comment wasn't so much annoying, inasmuch as it was just utterly stupid (as in, some babies just don't have hair, Mom!).

The whole week pretty much balanced itself out though, as life always does. I've been reading this book by Dr. John F. Demartini called The Breakthrough Experience where he talks about equilibrium and how at the center of all the positives and negatives in life is balance and love. "Nature won't allow anything but equilibrium. When you embrace the balance and the truth, love surrounds you." So, for everything that happens in life that is negative, there is a positive side to it (and vice versa).

I was thinking about this in relation to our holiday, and it couldn't be more true. Sure, I have to put up with the relatives making asinine comments about my babies hair, but I also don't have to do any cooking for an entire week. It's all balanced. I get to eat a lot of yummy, unhealthy food (seriously, I think I have some sort of holiday eating disorder or something), but then my body feels the effects of it afterwards. I have fun playing board games with my family, but then my sister gets sick and starts passing gas that smells worse than my dead grandma.

See... balance.