HAPPY JUNE 8th!!!

Here we are again. June 8th. You come around every year and seriously - you, JUNE 8th, have never brought me any good news and always try to make me sad! Oh sure, in the past 43 years you have really only been a bad day TWICE, but both those times were complete stinkers. They are so bad, the other 41 times cannot possibly make up for it.

I lost my grandfather on you many years ago and got my first heartbreak on another of your days. I can't see the date on the calendar without cringing just a bit. I try to put it out of my mind, and I usually don't dwell, because, after all, the past is the past. But still, every year on June 7th, I prepare my heart just a little. It seems the pain of loss, though it may subside with time, never really goes away. There is always a little mark on our soul, isn't there?

Today could be a sad day if I let it. I am choosing not to allow that to happen. There are happy moments to be found in this day and I am going to go out with my child and soak up some happiness and sunlight. I am going to laugh and sing loudly in the car. As my daughter says, "watch out world, here I come!"

I am going to be thankful for the years I had with my grandfather and the joy that was mine to have a PaPa. I am going to eat some peanuts with my little girl and tell her all about him. I am going to wander out to my husband's shop and remember doing the same thing when I was young and would go watch my grandfather work in his shop. I am going to be happy for the memories today and not sad for the loss.

I may allow myself to listen to a few songs from my past but I know that I am going to be thankful for the fun times spent with a great guy, for all the growth and challenges that time in my life brought me and for the friend that I have now because of it. Today,I will celebrate the memories and not be sad for the what-ifs. (by the way, I always tell my husband that his lucky numbers are 0608...and he should celebrate this day every year as his luckiest day...hee hee!!)

So, today might be all about remembering, but remembering with a smile and not a tear! No, no tears today. Happy June 8th everyone! Happy June 8th! Get out and enjoy the day.

Living Happily In the Moment!
Bev