Lucky (Wo) Man

We are country music fans at my house. A favorite artist around here is Montgomery Gentry. Makinna especially likes them. They have a new song out called "Lucky Man". This song speaks to me lately, especially the line.."I look around at what everyone has. And I forget about all I've got." (for full lyricshttp://music.yahoo.com/Montgomery-Gentry/Lucky-Man/lyrics/36514769#lyricstop )
This was especially true last weekend. I work on Saturdays and my mother has passed on the yard sale gene to me that runs in the women in my family. My husband told me about a community yard sale in a development that he had been doing some work in. He told me the houses were big, and boy was he right. The homes were just beautiful..BIG and beautiful. I found my self longing for a big beautiful home. Growing up I lived in very nice homes. The house we have now is just a simple rancher with 3 bedrooms and 2 baths, nothing fantastic but not itty bitty either. But the green eyed monster of envy was sitting on my shoulder. Luckily I heard that song on the way home, and I began to kick my self in the butt for even feeling envious.

You see I have a wonderful life. We have our struggles but over all we have a good life. Our house is small but it is full of love. My husband loves me. I know it with every fiber of my body. He loves the kids. He would do anything for this family. We laugh a lot together, our family. We do things together. We grocery shop together, we cook out together, we snuggle in our bed on Sunday mornings together. I believe that as my children grow older they will have fond memories of all the fun we had as a family.
My other blessings include; wonderful friends that let me go on and on and on about my troubles, and an incredibly supportive extended family that has helped us emotionally, financially, and with their time.
Overall life is good. We have our challenges. Seems like they have come one right after another the last 4 years. But we will persevere, we will laugh, we will love each other. After all I probably should not have a big house anyway. My mother also passed on the clutter and poor housekeeping gene to me too.