Thank Goodness!

I am thankful for the American dream. I just bought my first house. I have two beautiful boys and a husband that, despite my disbelief in the sentiment originally, actually grows closer to me every day. I don't yet have a dog, but I am seriously contemplating getting one, replacing my fence with a white picket fence, and getting another half a child (to make the requisitie 2.5 children, though I still haven't figured out the logistics of this). I know that it is fashionable these days to be "unique" and to struggle against societal norms, but I have never had a happier moment in my life. Then again, there aren't too many people who actually slide right into the American ideal, so perhaps having this life I never knew I wanted until I had it isn't really the normal life after all. I don't care, I'll take it as it is.

I am thankful for not borrowing trouble. I spent a lot of my life thinking about what could go wrong tomorrow, forgetting that it wasn't wrong today and unaware of the fact that I am not a psychic and even if I was, I wouldn't be able to stop the bad things, only see them coming. But because of the things listed above, happiness has overtaken my life and forced me to remember what it is like to live right now, to relish exactly what I have, and to let tomorrow come as it may. Come to think of it, maybe that is why I've had so many good yesterdays lately.

Finally, I am thankful for ruined plans. Not one thing that I value most in my life is what I had planned - thank goodness I lost my way.