last night, my blood pressure remained strangely normal, my breathing unusually relaxed, and my voice surprisingly calm as we slowly coasted to a stop in the middle of 16th street. our van was loaded up with our children and luggage as we embarked on our journey to chicago for the weekend... at least that was the plan until the van decided it wasn't goin' nowhere. oh, and did i mention that just that afternoon we had picked it up from the fix-it place and allowed the fix-it people to charge an unspeakable amount of money to our account to fix this very problem! it appeared we had just spent a heck of a lot of money and an entire day of packing for nothing.
but, like i said, somehow i remained rather unphased and even pleasant throughout the entire ordeal. (believe me, my husband will confirm that this is highly un-normal!) i guess i am finally starting to learn that life gives what it will, and we can either be miserable about it (and make everyone around us miserable in the process), or we can make the best of it. maybe a lesson in learning to handle disappointment was what we needed more than a weekend away.
a very cozy car ride in my dear sister's "race car" (as levi likes to call it), a phone call to grandma & grandpa instead, and a few roasted marshmallows in the backyard with the neighbors... and it wasn't such a bad night after all.
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