We were discussing the new Frozen trailer that has been released and it got me thinking: if a sequel to a movie with a title song as powerful as Let It Go is being made  then it has to be different but the same kind of wonderful.

And that made me think how life is a funny thing…

We seem to have a plan and put it into motion when suddenly a curve ball can be tossed our way to change our direction.

The curveball isn’t always a bad thing like the “biggies”- a death, an illness, a job loss, divorce…

Life can seem different while still being somewhat the same. We, the main character, are still in it after all much like Elsa and Anna will be “starring” (do cartoon characters have starring roles??) in Frozen 2.

These changes or curveballs can even be part of your plan…except you had no idea that what you planned would or could change you in such a profound way.

For example~a decision has been made to take a job. That choice puts you in position to meet your current spouse. All you set out to do was begin or continue your career and now you have added a life partner to your resume!

Another~you decide to go to a certain college…that choice provides opportunities and friendships that shift your focus from what you thought you wanted to do or be into who you were made to be.

Let’s say you decide to have a baby…in my case, we decided to have two.

We had zero control over whether they would be a boy or girl…we had no idea what we would be like as parents…we had no idea how loving someone else could possibly change your outlook on absolutely everything..

Let alone knowing that the process of that altering could shift as the second child came into the picture.

How different my life would have been if I would have had a daughter instead of my son’s…Here I thought I was great with girls and it turns out I was made to be a boy mom!

A plan to “only” volunteer can to lead to a call into ministry, put you in a place to meet incredible people and mentor awesome kids, and then, unexpectedly learn to love one of those kids as if he were your own; welcoming him into your family as an official member.

No one sees the part of the plan that can change when we are looking at the blue prints, do we?

No one but God.

Drinking my coffee this morning, I find I am in a place of contentment…all my chicks are under one roof after a month long separation…if that doesn’t warm a mother’s heart I don’t know what else does ❤

In addition to that, there are two sweet souls that have joined the fold for the weekend as well.

My days of traveling for weekend “adult” fun has been changed to chauffeuring for a Robotics Club and watching my truck drive away for a midnight run chasing after Shamrock Shakes while I clean the kitchen only to prepare for the much anticipated and eagerly expected mess yet to come…(and my happy mother’s heart could not be more full at the prospect of cleaning that mess!)

I was saying to my husband last night that I feel like I am barely adjusting to where life is currently  when it changes again to something different…

That is a strange feeling..watching precious moments shift, ebb, and flow through your fingers.

What will come next?

It’s hard to say but considering I never dreamed I would be where I am today, with this level of contentment resting upon me over my current circumstance, I am going to assume life will continue to look different.

It’s a little scary to think of what may be coming…especially when I want to freeze frame this precious time now of my boys entangled on the couch together or watching them run out the door with Dan’s boots on one’s feet, Dan’s bear (Yes, BEAR -like the animal) foot slippers on another’s all toward our truck that was simply (correctly) assumed was Ok to drive without asking…

These are good days.

Days I did not plan for.

Days I did not ask for.

Days and moments I have been given.

I feel thankful and I want to be encouraged for what else is in store in the days to come because of the faithfulness of the Giver.

My prayer is that in the small moments, you too will find contentment that will carry you through the next curveball as well.