GUTS!

When my sisters and I were little our mom would always read the Ramona books to us by Beverly Cleary.  If you never experienced those books in your childhood, you missed out.  But anyway, last year they made a movie based on those books called Ramona and Beezus.  I thought the movie was fabulous and was transported to my childhood seeing Ramona come alive.  I was thinking about a couple of great scenes from that movie this weekend.

In the movie (and in the books as well) Ramona gets angry with her family.  So while they are sitting around the dinner table Ramona is so angry that she informs her family that she wants to say a really bad word.  So her parents say 'OK Ramona, go ahead and say it if you feel like you need to'. 
"GUTS! GUTS GUTS GUTS!!!"  Ramona yells.  Her family starts laughing which makes her feel even worse.  So Ramona winds up in the bathroom where out of anger she squeezes an entire tube of toothpaste into the sink.

I was thinking about that a lot this weekend.  I think those 2 moments in the life of Ramona Quimby are how I am feeling, and have felt for the past month..or more.  Frustrated at everything, and I don't know how else to explain it except for...
GUTS!!