Is This Mike On?

Life couldn’t be better right now.

We both have good jobs, enough money to pay the bills, plus a little bit extra. Principals from the high school and middle school have yet to call about our boys this year. We’ve gone two months without needing a major operation, it seems.

The washing machine and dryer still work after 10 years. I know my wife loves me and I will get to see all my kids this weekend.

Then why am I waiting for the other shoe to drop? Any moment now, part of me expects the earth around me implode. I expect to go home and see a plague of locusts in the mailbox. Even worse, somebody has purchased the Rosie O’Donnell box set for me for Christmas.

It’s not that I’m negative. If life gives me lemons, I will blame the dog. The glass is always half full, despite my motto, “it’s always something.”

Maybe it had something to do with our rough start that lasted almost 15 years. For the longest time, I  felt like I was in a virtual game of Pac-Man, rushing to stay one step ahead. You name it, it happened to us.

Van blows out an engine. Somebody else needs an operation and we’re arguing about the t0othpaste.

Years later, the winds have subsided. The sun is out and little birds are chirping everywhere. Honestly, we still have stuff to deal with life everybody else.  Trials never seem to leave. They just change their appearance.

Sure, I will continue to set some money and food aside for bad times. I would be stupid not to prepare for when life goes in the toilet again.

In the meantime,  I will enjoy life as it is, smile a lot and help people as much as I can.

Update: Five minutes after posting this, my son received a referral to an orthodontist. Sigh.

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