I Wish You Enough

My friend sent me this story in an email the other day and I just loved it... thought I would share.

Recently I overheard a mother and daughter in their last moments together at the airport. They had announced the departure. Standing near the security gate, they hugged and the mother said, "I love you and I wish you enough". The daughter replied, "Mom, our life together has been more than enough. Your love is all I ever needed. I wish you enough, too, Mom". They kissed and the daughter left. The mother walked over to the window where I was seated. Standing there I could see she wanted and needed to cry. I tried not to intrude on her privacy but she welcomed me in by asking, "Did you ever say good-bye to someone knowing it would be forever?". "Yes, I have," I replied. "Forgive me for asking, but why is this a forever good-bye?".
"I am old and she lives so far away. I have challenges ahead and the reality is - the next trip back will be for my funeral," she said. "When you were saying good-bye, I heard you say, 'I wish you enough'. May I ask what that means?". She began to smile. "That's a wish that has been handed down from other generations. My parents used to say it to everyone". She paused a moment and looked up as if trying to remember it in detail and she smiled even more. "When we said , 'I wish you enough', we were wanting the other person to have a life filled with just enough good things to sustain them". Then turning toward me, she shared the following as if she were reciting it from memory:
I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright no matter how gray the day may appear.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun even more.
I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive and everlasting.
I wish you enough pain so that even the smallest of joys in life may appear bigger.
I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting.
I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess.
I wish you enough hellos to get you through the final good-bye.
She then began to cry and walked away.
They say it takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them but then an entire life to forget them.

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One Build-A-Bear Teddy Bear - $35.00

6 Balloon-Bouquet - $10.00

The Look on Chad's face when he realized I'm pregnant again - PRICELESS!!!

Yes, you read correctly... I'm PREGNANT!

On Saturday, March 1st I was at Target picking up some lamps for our newly painted and refurnished bedroom and happened to walk by the aisle that has pregnancy tests and just thought to myself... What the hell, I'll just take one! I was starting to wonder if I was pregnant because I was having a lot of the same symptoms as the first time around and I still hadn't had a period after the D&C and this was almost 7 weeks later. I didn't really think it would be positive but sure enough, it popped up with the word pregnant. :D Chad was at work all day Saturday so I had some time to plan a surprise for him. We already had the teddy bear because we made it about a year ago for our future child, so I went to Wal-Mart and bought a couple little outfits, one for a girl and one for a boy and also bought a bouquet of balloons. I clipped the balloons on a bouncer we have, strapped the teddy bear in with the pregnancy test in its lap and draped the outfits over the edge of the bouncer and put it in our living room, right in front of the door. It was the first thing Chad saw when he walked in and the look on his face was truly priceless! He just stood there staring with this look of disbelief on his face and finally stammered out... "Are you pregnant?".

We went to the doctor on Tuesday and they ran a blood test just to be sure and yes we are! Someone's getting impatient to get here I think because like I said, no period... we just got pregnant! We won't know until the ultrasound on the 18th how far along we are but the doctor said probably about 5 weeks so the baby will probably be due the end of October or early November. Obviously we're still in the "danger-zone" but I'm determined to stay positive and not worry about what could happen and just hope and pray for the best.