Friday, March 4, 2011

Are you a planner?

Hi Folks,
Long time no blog. Hope this finds anyone still reading well and making it through this ridiculous winter...and I do mean ridiculous.
We have snow banks in our yard that are STILL 3 feet high (previously 6 feet high) and this may shorten the 15 years we said we'd wait to move back home to SoCal...we shall see.
On a nicer note, Mr. P&P graduated from BU with his Master's and his class ring is on order and I got him a nice paperweight at a local jeweler to commemorate the occasion. His diploma is up, displayed nicely in our home and I am so proud of him. Mr. P&P is an ambitious, driven guy and has a whole plan laid out for the future-which I love.
I am a planner, but he is an uber-planner!
Are you a planner?
Of course, as they say, "The best laid plans..." So even if you are a planner, you must be flexible and realize that, at times, plans must be changed, updated or you just have to 'go with the flow'...
I remember my 'original' life plan:
Get married young (done...and divorced young unfortunately) and have 2 kids young.
Uh, my kids are four legged and furry so that didn't work out "as planned" either. There's a little thing called "unexplained infertility" that got in the way.
The young divorce, while painful, was ultimately a good thing and, after many years of mourning the loss of having kids, I've come to terms with not being able to have any.
At some point, especially when your best laid plans veer out of your control, you have to learn to accept and even revel in your life as it is.
I get to be around kids all time-from K's kids whom I love like my own, to TM's kids and MO's kids who I get to look after, now and again, when they sub afternoon classes. I get to see Mel's kids too-miracles both of them and I have my furry kids who I love as much as I would love human kids of my own. I have a GREAT husband (see above) and I wouldn't certainly have met him if I was still married to the first one. We just outgrew each other, by the way...I was only 19 and he only 22 when we got married...babies. We had no business getting married but of course we knew it all so we did anyway. Stupid. I'm sure he's happy too and feels he's where he is supposed to be-just like I do.
So, remember, no matter if you're just starting out or are facing a milestone birthday-don't sit there and lament..."Oh woe is me, my plans didn't work out or aren't working out." Trust that you are just where you are supposed to be and, at some point in your life, it will all be revealed to you. That does happen, it's happened to me many times. So, I plan, Mr. P&P plans and then we travel the road 'the big guy' wants for us.
And, you know what? We are right where we are supposed to be.
Happy Friday!

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