Waxing philosophical...

Yesterday, after coming home from a walk around the neighborhood, Batman and I sat down at the table to have some hot chocolate. He, of course, chugged his in about five minutes, so I got up to wash some dishes. I started up my computer and brought up my iTunes to listen to some music while I worked. Batman requested some "Bon Jobi" so I clicked on the first Bon Jovi album I saw on there. (I think I have them all.) The on I clicked happened to be one of their newer ones and not one of my favorites (Have a Nice Day.)

Anyway, the first song is the one called "Have a Nice Day" which is probably the best one on there. It's your typical, "I'm not gonna take any crap from anyone" song, which I tend to favor. The second song that came on is a slower one I've only heard a few times. It's called, "Welcome to Wherever You Are." I stopped washing dishes for a minute and really listened to the chorus. I know it's cheesy, it's just a dumb, Bon Jovi song, but it has one of the best choruses I've heard. Or at least, it sort of spoke to me yesterday....

"Welcome to wherever you are, this is your life, you've made it this far. Welcome, you've gotta believe, that right here right now, you're exactly where you're supposed to be."

The best way to make myself feel better about my situation in life is to remember everything I've been through in the past, and recognize just how far I've come. Just last year we were having to move out of our campus apartment because the Professor was graduating and moving into an apartment we didn't even really know how we were going to pay for. The Professor ended up teaching three classes at UGA that following semester and we had more money than we ever did before.

Well, I'm not expecting to come into more money anytime soon. But I do know that things always work out for us. You don't have to be religious to believe in everything happening for a reason. You can call it God, fate or just dumb luck, I guess.

Despite the craziness of this move, living 900 miles from all our family, having another baby and barely living paycheck to paycheck, right now this is exactly where we're supposed to be. Life can be completely unexpected sometimes and I'm still trying to get used to it.