Coincidences

July 24, 2017

Coincidences, Fate, God-winks...whatever you want to call them...happen all the time. 

Weird coincidences happen...I have a baby and need a teaching job all in the same year, the school has a daycare IN IT (cheaper than other places)! Someone sneaks a better offer in on a house and get it, we end up finding a better house around the corner.

Tim needed a job where he was appreciated more, a family friend told us they needed someone to work in the shop. 

Everett gets RSV at 6 weeks, he doesn't get sick his first months in daycare. I have no more sick days to use, I stay healthy and so do the boys. 

I say I want to go to Target, we find a gift card. Tim gets a seat belt ticket and the next week gets in a wreck and totaled his car (but had his seat belt on). I go to see the play Beauty and the Beast and it comes on TV the next day and we watch it with Rex and dance as a family to 'Beauty and the Beast'. I think (don't even say) I want to get rid of some hangers...then a friend on Facebook posts that she is needing some for a refugee family.

Seriously, usually these things get over looked, but have you ever just sat and thought about them? Thought about how life just seems to always do what needs to be done. I am a believer that all things in our life happen for a reason. The good things, the bad things, and all things in between happen for a purpose. We sometimes forget...or maybe we don't believe it yet, that life has a plan for us. I used to have a hard time with the bad things in life that happened and asked "Why us" Why do we keep having to work so hard at life... but now we LIVE through the bad. We have learned to embrace it, figure out why we are being tested, then LIVE (not survive-there is a difference) through it. I have Tim's annoying optimism to thank for this finally taking effect. 

I also am not perfect so I still have freak outs and he talks me off a ledge, but overall I have began to live through these 'bad' things and remind myself that it must be happening for a reason. 

We must remember that our life is special, our kids are special, our impact on the world is special, and we should appreciate everyday we get to spend on this Earth because, there are many people who have an exponentially more difficult life than us. Appreciate what you have, help those who don't have it, and GIVE what you can to Positively Impact those around you. (That's what I have learned in my 27 years of life on  this Earth)

I have always told my students that their lives are more than they see it as. They think in such closed lines that they aren't able to look outside of themselves yet and see the impact they make on the world and others in it. I only was able to learn this myself in my late 20s, so my expectations for them to actually listen to me is low (they are selfish brained middle schoolers) but I hope that some of them have listened. I hope that they are able to eventually remember what I said whether it me now or in 10 years and say you know Mrs. Mueller was right. I have always been honest with my students and I believe that treating them this way has given them the understanding that I am a human being too, meaning they appreciate me more, they respect me more, and they do not 'act out' as much in my room. I tell them if I have gone with 0 sleep and am grouchy so watch how they act...and they respect me enough to be on their best behavior. At least that was with my first batch of kids (who I had for 2 years in a row) and now I get a new bunch this year who I hope will be as great as the others....anyways I got off topic. Tim says I do that too much, but whatever I have thousands of thoughts going through my head at a time, do you really expect me to stay on topic!?

In summary, appreciate ALL things that happen in your life. Appreciate the good, the bad, and everything in between. Don't expect happiness to happen automatically, it is a choice you have to make in accepting that the things in your life all happen for a reason, you just have to wait and see what the reason is.
Time to go play with the boys...1 thinks he is big, the other wants to be a baby...

       Rex 2.5 in pack and play















                            E. 7mo in big boy room with toys
                            he crawled there from the living room