Our "baby" came in the mail yesterday!

Yesterday when we got home from David picking me up at the train station after work he said we would be having a nice wine with dinner. Well that means we are celebrating something. He had already shared his business stories of the day which were quite good but I didn't think that was what we were celebrating. I suspected it might have to do with our book having finally arrived from the publisher but I didn't see it anywhere.

I had approved the e-proof on the 25th of September and it was a very long and frustrating process for this first version of the actual book to make it's way too me. I knew that it could actually finally arrive any day, but wasn't totally prepared for it to be that day. David was really frustrating me as he had obviously hidden it and I really wasn't in the mood for hide and go seek! He told me to stop looking down and to start looking up (what a metaphor for life and the bad day I had at work that is). So I looked at the ceiling where it obviously wasn't. He asked why it was either black or white, up or down for me, is there not a middle ground (another good metaphor for life). Where do we put nice things we receive like cards? I then realized that would be the shelf above the fireplace, I looked up at that and there it was our beautiful book! The cover is glossy, the paper is nice and it actually looks like not just a book but a really nice and good book!

Go away self esteem demons! I am worthy of having a really good book that people will enjoy reading and owning. As I know that our beliefs create our reality I must really really believe that from every cell in my body. Well, it will help when a few people who don't know us buy the book and make really good comments about it. But why do we (me anyway) seek this approval from outside of ourselves? I'll leave you with that as I work on that one myself. I don't work in my day job on Fridays and one of the things I'm doing today is answering the publisher's press release questionnaire about the book. It really is a good book, a great book in fact!