Out With the Bad, In With the Good

The first week of my husband’s two week business trip to Germany ended Friday and so my daughters and I decided to head back to the lake for the weekend. It’s become a bit of a tradition to watch the Kentucky Derby at my parents’ lake home. We make mint juleps (I must admit, these sound much better than they taste), we pick our horses and we don hats. Not the big, dainty hats of the true Derby-goers. More like my dad’s old golf hats and visors, knit winter hats and, of course, OSU Buckeye ball caps. It is truly a sight to behold. No wonder people think we are nuts! Unfortunately for me, I was upstairs in the office when I realized the start of the race was fast approaching. In hurrying down the 1 ½ story flight of stairs, the edge of my shoe caught the stair and I began the slow- motion-like decent down the last half of the stairs….head first. Before completely hitting the floor, I crashed into the frame of the open closet doorway with my shoulder and crumpled to the ground. Unbelievably, nothing is broken; though I am quite sure I will never forget the look on the faces of my parents, brother and daughters as they stared in disbelief at the pile of “me” lying at the foot of the stairs. Incredibly, I could go to Home Depot and order more woodwork for my parents’ closet door without even taking a sample along because the actual pattern of the woodwork is etched into my upper arm from front to back in all sorts of pretty shades! You may be asking yourself what good there is in this story. Well, the silver lining of the story is this….my horse won! Street Sense came from the back and did his thing and I won the whole kitty! Now, I should probably admit that the pot only held 6 dollars. But does that really matter? I think not (though my damaged body will answer to that at a later date!) Life balances itself out. Sometimes the events don't seem equal in their significance. But with the bad always comes the good if your eyes are open to it. A word of advice though, watch your step!!

Quote of the Day-“You better believe there will be times in your life when you'll be feeling like a stumbling fool. So take it from me: you'll learn more from your accident than anything that you could ever learn in school.” ~~Billy Joel