The Winning Ticket
About two weeks ago, Frank told me to start buying lottery tickets when I went grocery shopping. Hey, you can’t win unless you play. So I started to play. I even signed up for Publisher’s Clearing House and I am doing their online lottery game. Frank and I are having fun talking about what we would do if we won. On our stay-in date nights we can sit on the couch for a good hour or so just talking about what we would do and where we would go. Winning the lottery makes for great conversations.
Yesterday morning after my run with Sophie, I took a shower and started to go in our bedroom to grab my clothes. Mary Rene and Frank were cuddled together sleeping so good that I decided to wait to get dressed. I hung out in the kitchen, wearing my pink fluffy bathrobe as I checked work emails.
It was time to wake Frank up so I headed back to the bedroom. But when I walked in the room I looked down at the two of them and they took my breath away. I stood there for about 30 seconds just staring at them both as they breathed in and out.
At that moment I realized, I already won the lottery. I got the winning ticket three years and three months ago when I married Frank. I got the winning ticket 13 months and 3 weeks ago when Mary Rene was born. And every morning when I wake up with the two of them at my side, it is another winning ticket day.
Many people say that the best day of their lives is their wedding day or the day their child/ren was/were born. But for me, the best day of my life is today. And tomorrow, the best day will be that day. Because each day is another day that I am blessed to be the wife of an amazing husband and a mother of an incredible daugther. Each day is another opportunity for me to love and be loved. Each morning I win the lottery.
No amount of money can ever complete me like my family already does.
November 12th, 2009 at 8:58 am
AMEN Trena !!!! Maybe if we all started counted our blessings as opposed to the things we “want” we’d be better off !
November 12th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
“Because each day is another day that I am blessed to be the wife of an amazing husband and a mother of an incredible daugther. Each day is another opportunity for me to love and be loved.”
I so love your attitude! I am starting to learn to focus on appreciating each day rather than simply working for the future, but it is not yet natural.