I am going to warn you, this is not going to be the most elegantly written blog I have ever wrote.  It may not even make sense.  With only a couple of hours of sleep in the last 48 and all the excitement from the morning, my poor head is swimming.  Swimming can be good though, at least it’s not drowning…lol. 

  First, I feel the need to explain how I arrived at my new found attitude.  For the longest time, I have been helping friends.  It seems that whenever anyone needs anything, I am the first person that they turn to.  I never heard from them unless they were at a low point in their lives.  I have always seen this as a bad thing.  Let’s face it, we all need someone to talk to when things are bad, but we also want to hear from our friends when things are good as well.  I finally realized that maybe this was my calling in life.  It comes so naturally to me, and I love people so why not make it a career choice.  Sometimes I wish that God was not so subtle, this whole time he has given me a gift that I only used occasionally.  Sometimes a good slap would help, and even then would I really have seen the bigger picture? 

  After making this wonderful discovery, I decided to look into being a life coach.  I have found all the information that I could on the Internet and will soon be looking at the library.  I learned a lot in such a short amount of time.  This is where the new attitude comes in.  I decided that I didn’t want it to take a long time to learn and realize anything else that was being taught to me through the things going on in my life.  I thought it would be a good idea to accept any new challenges in my life and face them with an open heart and mind and with a very big smile on my face. 

  Let the learning begin!  The hubby is out of town for a couple of days and we only have one car.  I had done everything that I needed to do before he left so that he could have the car.  Wouldn’t you just know that something would come up…lol.  First thing this morning the kids missed the bus, it actually came early and also left early.  We were half way to the bus stop when another parent had stopped and let us know that we had missed it.  The same parent had also offered to give the kids a ride to school since they were aware that I had no vehicle.  This was a miracle to me, even though I didn’t know this person very well.  I did make sure that both kids had our home phone number and also added my cell phone number so that they could call me so I wouldn’t worry.  It never hurts to be to careful right?  Well they did call and let me know that they were at school and everything was okay.  BIG relief!

  Now I had to set out on another adventure.  I had to walk to the bank to get a money order for the rent.  The bank is at least two miles from where we live, so I had to walk four miles today.  It doesn’t sound that bad, but when you are as out of shape as I am it does make a big difference.  Another thing that doesn’t help is my fear of being on foot that far away from home in a new place where only a couple of people know me.  I am use to small town living and have acquired a fear for larger areas.  I have been to every major city and have seen things that most people don’t see in a life time, yet I am still afraid.  I think being a parent makes you paranoid sometimes. 

  So to make a long story short, the sky didn’t fall.  There were no earthquakes, no drive by shootings, nothing but smiling faces and people waving. (I didn’t know that they did that in big cities…lol)  I learned that I need to use the skills that I learned when I was younger.  Just because I have added a few years since then and have a few kids now, the value of those lessons are still the same.  I have learned that I have a lot of unreasonable fears.  I also learned that if I take one step at a time and keep looking ahead I will make it to my destination.  I want to add that this is a very valuable life lesson, it can be applied to anything that we do in life.  Obstacles are the things that we see when we take our eyes off of our destination.  If we move forward without thinking about what might or could happen, then when they do happen we deal with it barely noticing that it is something that would have crumbled us before.  Life is full of surprises and it truly is an adventure.  I would advise anyone to grab a hold of it and enjoy the wild and crazy ride.