5 Reasons I’m Feeling Lucky

Happy March, everyone! This month, I’m feeling lucky. Why, you ask?

Here are my top five reasons:

1. I know what the first kiss after a year feels like.

It is sweet and tentative. It is nervous and hopeful. A little lustful and familiarly comfortable, all in one. I feel lucky to have been reminded over and over, after years of marriage, by a single kiss, what my marriage and the life we have chosen to live means to each of us. All in one kiss.

2. I can maneuver any bureaucracy, regardless of size.

Right?! If you can navigate Tricare, DEERS, CYSS, orders, movers, new schools, and new jobs and still feel sassy? That’s lucky, my friends. Even luckier? If you don’t know anything about any of the aforementioned but found a battle buddy who does.

3. My kids understand respect and honor at single digits.

We live, for now, in a civilian community. No installation. No other uniforms mulling around town. They now go to a preschool as the only military kids in the whole place. They may not always make the best decisions, but I cannot tell you how many times I have received comments and compliments on their respect for others and their manners and overt politeness. Military life taught them that. I feel lucky that they understand the importance of respect and honoring those older, wiser, and more experienced than they are.

4. I’m stronger than I think.

When given any number of difficult experiences, many of us believe we aren’t strong enough to get through it, but we do. Every time. I feel lucky that so many times, I haven’t had a choice. At times, if I did, I probably wouldn’t have made the right one. I probably would have chosen easy, lazy, and quick. When, really, this life has made me see that difficult, tenacious, and methodical are the paths to strength.

5. I have fallen in love with places I barely knew existed.

I mean, Kansas? Really? I love it. We will retire there one day, but this east coast girl never would have set foot there if it weren’t for this life. I am determined to fall in love with at least a piece of everywhere we go, and those are priceless gifts.

 

What makes you feel lucky? What do you love? How has it changed you? Share with us!

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