Our Window Got Smashed on Mother's Day!

Yesterday was my first mother’s day as a real on-duty mommy (I say that because last year I claimed it to be my 1^st because I was pregnant and needed a present, don’t judge me!) Well this year, Doug made it a point to make me feel really special! It was the best day ever! I got treated to a massage the night before. When I woke up I got a very nice card from Maddy, Comet and Doug, and after church we were on our way to my surprise. We arrived at the Melting Pot! We had an amazing brunch that made my belly very very happy. Then, we were off to Doug’s softball game where he won both games and made the most amazing catch ever (so he says, I didn’t see it because I was chatting it up with a soon to be member of the wives club) Ready to wrap up this amazing day, we walked to our car with two of our amazing friends and as we were saying goodbye and getting ready to put Maddy in the car, I noticed something on the passenger’s seat. It resembled water; I thought somehow Doug got the seat all wet or something. After looking a little harder I glanced to my left and then noticed the gaping hole that was our window. Someone had SMASHED our back window to pieces!!! I told everyone, “Our window got smashed in.” Doug and everyone else was in utter disbelieve. We then searched for the stolen items, but noticed that they took nothing! All they did is rummage through my clothes that were sitting to be donated in the back seat! Well, at least they could’ve saved me a trip to the goodwill! To my surprise Doug and I didn’t freak out about it. We just took a moment to be in disbelieve about the situation and then attempted to clean up the mess, although we hardly cleaned anything up since our friends, Kelly and Danny were cleaning it for us, bless their hearts. When we were done and on our way home, Doug and I had this peace about the whole thing that would never been able to be achieved without God in our lives. We knew that somehow, someway, God would make a positive out of this very negative situation.  To our surprise our insurance has a window thinngy-maggyger that covers these sorts of incidents, so our deductible is only $100 (I know, I’m so insurance lingo savvy huh!) I called the window place today and the lady was so nice to me and after talking to her for a while she told me that she would knock down my deductible to only $50! The window specialist is coming to my house to fix it today and voila, problem solved!

 I don’t know about you, but I never count on my day being filled with these sorts of unpleasant incidents. However, they tend to creep up on ya’, when you least expect them to! And trust me, I don’t always handle them with such grace, but I do know what makes the difference in my attitude. It’s having faith that I can hold on to. Knowing that in spite any negative circumstance the world can throw at me, I have a promise that could never be broken. I will always have a God that loves me and is kind and will find a blessing from ANY situation I am put in, no matter what. But with that promise comes great responsibility, as my good friend Margarit said “God gave you a brain, so use it!” I can’t just rely on the universe to give me the perfect day, or the perfect job, or the perfect circumstances. I have to exercise my responsibility (the ABILITY to respond!) and have a positive attitude towards any situation that comes my way. I don’t mean that I have to be fake in my emotions, because for a second there I was pissed that someone would violate my property, but I allowed myself to feel and then moved on with positive thoughts about the situation. So many times I’ve allowed a nasty situation such as this get the best of me and I’ve allowed it to ruin the day, or even weeks of my life for that matter.  I’ll tell you something, getting my window smashed was not about to ruin my amazing 1^st Mothers day! So today make the choice to not let window smashers dictate your joy! Find the positive in every situation, I promise you there is ONE!

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Stay blessed, and stay saucy my friends! 

Mothers Day

Mother: what does the word mother mean to us? Life? love? Nag? Hehe Whatever mother means to you, just know that without one carrying you around for 9 months or so you would not be reading this email right here, right now.

My husband and I went to a baseball game the other day and my mind started wondering, mostly because of the insatiable rude foursome that sat directly in front of us, I kept thinking to myself ,” Cheese and rice, their mothers would be so disappointed by their behavior!” AND then my mind wondered to a different realm, as it often does, and I thought; Holly molly, ALL of these people sitting here were once babies and they were ALL once inside a womb! (Fathers, do not get squirrely on me, we ALL know you had 50% part in this “creating life” miracle, just hang in there till 6/20 for your email k.) ALL of these people including ME and YOU once made our mammas so uncomfortable by pushing her insides up so far to make room for us, that it caused little mamacita to have the world renowned pregnancy side effect….. Heart burn! Your mother sacrificed precious nights of sleep because you were having a party in her uterus, playing fun games like; stick your hands, feet, or whatever else fits into mommy’s ribs, for hours on end. Your mother saw the deterioration of her once Godly like figure, yes I said Godly thank you very much, turn into a nice rounder version full of fun veins, stretch marks, weird lines down her belly, hair in places she’s never seen, you name it! She suffered from Pregosaurus Virus, a virus so severe that it takes over the brain and causes furious attacks on husbands, poor defenseless husbands whose only fault was chewing a smidgen too loudly. Co-workers were loathed by your mother for their less than appetizing lunch that infiltrated her nostrils and sent her running to the bathroom to hurl four times in a row. Your mother had to endure the renouncement of cute shoes in order to fit her tamale sized chunkers into more appropriate and less painful kicks. And let’s not forget that she was probably so breathless from going to the bathroom every 20 minutes that sadly enough, towards the end of her pregnancy she counted the game of not peeing her pants her cardio! She probably cried and cried because of the joy she felt when you moved in her tummy! She would sit and wonder which one of your parts was sticking out through her belly and biting her nails at the thought of being a good mother for you. Let’s not leave out the part that we all know about but we never wanna imagine. The fact that she either had her stomach CUT open and had the worst time at begin able to get up from her hospital bed after surgery for some time, all to have you in her arms safely! OR she pushed you out of her v jay jay! Let’s face the facts, that just looks painful. I can’t imagine what it will be like but I’m sure it isn’t a walk down 5^th avenue. All of this she endured for you to have life. This mother’s day make sure you thank your mother for all that she endured to have you. Be thankful for her and feel blessed to have such a tough cookie as your mother. If she’s no longer in this world say a little something for her in her honor because she deserves a bloody medal!! Give it up for all the mothers in the world, love on them not just this weekend but always!