In life you can’t choose your family. You are born into a family and all its complicated dynamics whether you are ready for it or not. If you decide at some point to have children of your own, the only thing you control is who you choose to help you parent this family. Sometimes, circumstances make this choice seem impossible as well.
So what can you do?
You could spend your days wishing you were someone else.
Or, you could look at your life, accept it for what it is and be thankful for the ways, even the smallest ways, that you can make a choice.
Today, I am choosing to look at all the ways that my life and family are good. I can say I am truly thankful to have two, wild rambunctious boys that keep my life crazy but ultimately undeniably interesting. I am thankful to have a true partner in Mad Dog. To know he’s got my back will carry me through anything.
I realized if all I do is look at my life as a disaster, then that is exactly what I will find.
If I choose to look at how amazing it is in this very moment, that might be exactly what I find, too.
What choice would you make?
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