1 husband, 3 kids, and a side of a great career...Order up!

I went to a movie tonight and one of the previews had a quote that really struck me. "Sometimes life isn't made to order." Wow.

When I make plans for my life, I sometimes feel like I am "ordering" from a menu. "I will start with an education, with a side of fun and traveling, and top the life off with a husband, and 2 children (2 boys, hold the girls please), wait....make it 2 boys and a girl, so 3 children altogether." "Oh, and if you could please serve this life to me in...a different city then where I am currently living. Thanks!"

In reality, I only receive what I have ordered some of the time. They cook is out of this or that, an education takes longer to make than expected, traveling is available but only to Nebraska or Idaho, I come up short and can't yet pay for my order and have to work a little bit more, or sometimes (most of the time) what I have ordered isn't currently in season and I will have to wait a little longer to have it. So, back to the ordering line I go.

Funny thing. When I am placing my new order I can get very frustrated that I can't have what I want right now. But, if I will stop constantly focusing on the future, and enjoy what I have had, and what I currently have before me, I realize, that all the work that went it to getting this was worth it and, I am perfectly happy with what I received.