Hello out there!

It is really late at night and I should be snoozing, but I suddenly had a desire to create a blog like so many of my friends and family. Since it is late and I am simply experimenting, this will not be long, fancy, or have any pictures. I promise to post some later though. Tonight I am pondering why it is I continually volunteer for things I know I am not good at and will regret simply because I feel like I should volunteer every time someone asks for volunteers. Case in point. I cannot sew. My mom tried to teach me and gave up deciding that not everyone can sew and that it is a talent. So, someone asks for volunteers to sew some balls for children in a battered women's shelter and I sign up. That's silly because no one is going to want balls that I attempt to sew. Needless to say the project was removed from my incapable hands. Then last week volunteers were asked to help with a RS birthday party enrichment, and of course I signed up, and for the entertainment committee because no one else wanted to do it. Well, tonight we had a meeting to discuss details of the event. When they asked for my ideas for the entertainment, I gave the ideas I had researched earlier and was promptly informed that my idea was "boring"! I don't know why I put myself in these spots all of the time. I've just always filled in gaps I feel no one else will fill, even if I know I will do an inadequate job. I really need to learn to just say, "Let someone else who is more capable do it." It sure would make me and everyone around me happier. Ah well, maybe I have finally learned my lesson.