I’ve been blessed lately. I just tend to not realize it in amongst all the stress of day to day life in a capitalist society.
I recieved a wonderful package just over a week ago from my punky secret swapper. I was able to christen the chopsticks set yesterday when we ordered out Chinese, and we’ve made plans to try out the sake set on Friday when D’s off work. I’ve yet to find a place to hang the calendar.
In the ways of non-material blessing which are infinitely more important but much harder to find ways to brag about I’m just being grateful that we have a place to live, are safe and sound from day to day (no matter how many times lately I wonder at that given the munchkin is SO mobile and into EVERYTHING).
So, I feel in some ways as though I’m fighting a losing battle because at least four or five times a day I’m diving across the house extracting things from his possession that in some cases I had NO idea we even OWNED let alone how he found them and is attempting to put them in his mouth.
I run a marathon daily even though there have been days lately I’ve felt like I can barely walk.
Which brings us to another piece of good news for which I’m grateful. I have health insurance, or at least I will once the paperwork goes through. There’s nothing that makes you appreciate growing up with socialized medicine so much as no longer having it, and also no longer having employment so therefore no longer having an insurance program. But now the city my husband works for has a new manager and a new health insurance program whose cost is not prohibitive. So, hopefully I’ll be feeling more like myself and less like someone who is danced on by herds of elephants in the night, very helpful when you have a small child who is starting to walk.
