Take nothing for granted...

I email a few people here and there and we talk about various things that have occurred in our lives. I love to hear the bizarre things that have occurred with others because then I don't feel so hexed, so plagued with just plain s*** luck. But I do love to hear stories as well, not just so I can feel better but because some people really have a lot in common while others, well, bless them, have had things happen to them that one would never even imagine. I am a naturally curious person so you have a story? Please spill!!!!

Pat and I have been through a lot of hard times together, a lot of off the wall things have occurred, a lot of things that some must actually find very hard to believe when I think about it. I dont' know if most people just don't talk about it or if Pat and I just simply seem to find trouble. I tend to take the pessimistic road with that one a believe that we just walk into trouble at every turn.

Whichever it is, I do know that for a couple of people who married young, who are now in their mid-thirties with 4 children, we have endured the life of someone much older in my opinion. We have been told that we are wise beyond our years by many. That comment itself really makes me sad sometimes just because I am such a kid sometimes. And there are those times that I just don't want to be wise from experiences that occurred in our early years. But too late for that now.

Perhaps that is just what is involved in most relationships, all that endurance just to wake up the next day or perhaps not. I wouldn't know really, not many people can talk about their life due to fear or the thought that they might reveal something horrible, or that they think that they simply cannot tell a good story or maybe they are just private. Or they just really don't want to relive painful memories. I'm sure there are a million reasons. But life is one of the most interesting things out there. Everyone has an interesting life, some plagued with bad luck, some riddled with endless amounts of good luck, there are just too many to list.

I just read about the family that bought $40 worth of lottery tickets and won $340 million dollars. Funny thing is that they had to struggle long and hard before this wonderful fate was handed to them. Sick children, financial woes, work problems. No, I'm not getting my hopes up but gosh wouldn't that be a wonderful reward for all of our pain and suffering over the years.

At this point though our reward is simply having the friends that we do have who believe in us, hell, who believe us period, our four very beautiful and healthy children, Pat and I have eachother through it all and have learned to deal, living in one of the most beautiful places in Minnesota, having a home, and deer, turkey, squirrel, and even little mice cross our paths almost daily. All those things that some take for granted. When you've nearly lost all of the aforementioned, you learn how quickly and easily things can change and how quickly you can lose.

Maybe I am just being sensitive when I say that our hardships are hard for some to believe because there are times when I won't tell a story because I myself just cannot believe the twists of fate that we have encountered let alone trying to share it with others.

For the record, it is all true, it is all real, it is all fact...except for maybe some action word or descriptive word, that might make the story more exciting, may be added for interest's sake but all is true and from the heart.

I am working my way up to entering my next post about mine and the girls arrival into Paris, Charles De Gaulle International Airport. It's coming but I need time to situate into this new blog.