Life

Picture is of the Snowdrops that are getting ready to open!!!!

Saw this poem on the internet....

Life can seem ungrateful and not always kind.
Life can pull at your heartstrings and play with your mind...
Life can be blissful and happy and free...
Life can put beauty in the things that you see...
Life can place challenges right at your feet...
Life can make good of the hardships we meet...
Life can overwhelm you and make your head spin...
Life can reward those determined to win...
Life can be hurtful and not always fair...
Life can surround you with people who care...
Life clearly does offer its Up and its Downs...
Life's days can bring you both smiles and frowns...
Life teaches us to take the good with the bad...
Life is a mixture of happy and sad...

and I started thinking about all the good and bad in my life recently....

GOOD----being part of a fire department
BAD-----when the pager goes off at 5 am and you realize the address they are suppose to respond to is your brother's house. Your nerves go into overdrive. Luckily they state if anyone is in the residence and it came thru that everyone was out so I was able to breath easier. Luckily it was a small smoldering fire caused by ambers falling thru the firebricks then thru a crack in the cement fireplace bottom onto one of the timbers. They are able to go back into the house and other than they can't use the fireplace and the house smelling of smoke all is well. They are able to use their oil heat and they only have to replace one inside electrical wire.

GOOD----# 1 daughter is home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BAD-------# 1 is going back on March 1 and it is going to be so hard to put her back on that plane. She has lost weight and she didn't have much to spare to begin with. She is in shopping heaven right now and pry won't have time to wear everything that she has bought before it is time to leave again but she is definitely enjoying the shopping. So much has changed in a year and spring stuff is coming out. Don't get me wrong she shopped off the internet while in Iraq but was unable to wear anything she bought and so had it sent home so when she got here it was like her own little Christmas to herself!

GOOD---- I am feeling 1,000 times better and off the meds
BAD------- They still don't know what it was. In my happy little world I say it was just a stomach virus gone really heywire. Going with this therory means I can continue to eat what I want. But I have seriously been paying more attention to what I eat just in case I start to feel sick again I know what I can blame it on!! Also to watch the cholesterol.

GOOD----Walmart is open 24 hours/day
BAD------found this out for sure when the blower motor went on our furnace on Sat. night
GOOD----After buying small heaters all was well until it was able to be repaired on Monday

GOOD----We got ne-used vehicles
BAD-------# 1 Sons car broke down and he has now put more miles on my vehicle than I have.
GOOD---- because I had a vehicle that he was able to borrow so that he was able to get to and from work and not have to give up his job, which would mean giving up his apartment which would mean him moving back home.

GOOD----The seed orders are coming in
BAD------ The wind ruined the covering on my greenhouse opening up everything inside to the elements and the weather is turning cold again
GOOD----The best guy in the world bought me another greenhouse and March is just around the corner

So...
Take the Life that you have and give it your best...
Think positive, be happy let God do the rest...
Take the challenges that life has laid at your feet...
Take pride and be thankful for each one you meet...
To yourself give forgiveness if you stumble and fall...
Take each day that is dealt you and give it your all...
Take the love that you're given and return it with care...
Have faith that when needed it will always be there...
Take time to find the beauty in the things that you see...
Take life's simple pleasures let them set your heart free...
The idea here is simply to even the score...
As you are met and faced with Life's Tug of War
http://www.storybin.com/builders/builders125.shtml