Random bits of happiness
Sometimes the things we screw up in the beginning we can make up for in the end.
I have one week to go before my final shift at Starbucks. I started there thinking it was going to be a couple of months and then I'd be back on my feet and wouldn't need them. It did take me only a couple of months to get back on my feet, but the job stuck around for another 4 years. I found I needed the second income, and wow... some of the friends I made cannot ever be replaced.
I'm having one of those days where I am looking around at my life and realizing all of the many things that I have to truly be grateful for.
Wren is now eleven, and is growing into such a wonderful person. I am amazed by her on a daily basis. I enjoy my time with her so much... our walks around the neighbourhood after dinner, our bike rides, our movie nights. The last few Sundays she has even made me breakfast! First pancakes, then waffles, and she informed me that tomorrow she will be making french toast. We're making cookies tonight and she's currently mixing the dry ingredients up. I love seeing the person she is becoming, I love hearing her thoughts and seeing the influence that my own crazy thoughts and beliefs have had on her.
Every day I go to a job that I love... and that I'm good at! My bosses are wonderful people, and are so much more than just employers. They value me, and they have really been so good to me in my time with this company. It's been a few years now, and I can't imagine leaving anytime soon.
I have my own house, my own car... and although those are just material things, I've earned them all on my own and they make me very proud.
Still, things keep getting better. At times I feel luckier than any one person deserves to be.
I don't know when it happened, but somewhere along the way I got the hang of this thing called life.
And my child just dumped brown sugar all over the kitchen floor.
Life is good :)
I have one week to go before my final shift at Starbucks. I started there thinking it was going to be a couple of months and then I'd be back on my feet and wouldn't need them. It did take me only a couple of months to get back on my feet, but the job stuck around for another 4 years. I found I needed the second income, and wow... some of the friends I made cannot ever be replaced.
I'm having one of those days where I am looking around at my life and realizing all of the many things that I have to truly be grateful for.
Wren is now eleven, and is growing into such a wonderful person. I am amazed by her on a daily basis. I enjoy my time with her so much... our walks around the neighbourhood after dinner, our bike rides, our movie nights. The last few Sundays she has even made me breakfast! First pancakes, then waffles, and she informed me that tomorrow she will be making french toast. We're making cookies tonight and she's currently mixing the dry ingredients up. I love seeing the person she is becoming, I love hearing her thoughts and seeing the influence that my own crazy thoughts and beliefs have had on her.
Every day I go to a job that I love... and that I'm good at! My bosses are wonderful people, and are so much more than just employers. They value me, and they have really been so good to me in my time with this company. It's been a few years now, and I can't imagine leaving anytime soon.
I have my own house, my own car... and although those are just material things, I've earned them all on my own and they make me very proud.
Still, things keep getting better. At times I feel luckier than any one person deserves to be.
I don't know when it happened, but somewhere along the way I got the hang of this thing called life.
And my child just dumped brown sugar all over the kitchen floor.
Life is good :)