It's been a GREAT summer... 2008!

This summer has been one of the most memorable summers for me. I was given the lucky chance of being laid off from the company that I worked with for 8 years!!! Lucky you say? Yes! I was given the time to be home with my boys and to simply catch up and smell the roses. It has been wonderful. Every single minute. So many new doors have opened... we don't realize what we are missing when what we are doing is so completely routine. Life is so incredible with so many experiences for us to enjoy that we are unaware of. I feel like I was handed a beautiful gift for free. Strange, it seems, but I feel like someone just "knew" it was my turn and that I was suppose to have my life flip completely upside down, literally. Some people really felt bad for me, but I never ever felt that way. I felt like I was being looked after. So, "thank you up there" to my beautiful Maker, the One that knows me, knows what I need so that I can be challenged in a new way and grow to a new, better level... and knows that I was ready for it. I am one of the luckiest, happiest people that I know. I still have my challenges, moments of feeling like a fish out of water, but they make me who I am and mold me to be what I know I am capable of. One thing I know for sure... is that God knows what is best for us... the good, the sad, the hard, the bad... bad only if we look at it that way. But He knows what we each need to get us to where He knows we were born to be. We just have to trust that when the lemons in life are thrown at us, there is truly a reason.