this wasn't in the plan |but life is still pretty good

Any time we end up spending more money than we'd like to on something (like last week's airplane ticket mix-up), it causes me to complain that too many things keep popping up, that we can't get ahead financially. But that is so not true. Still, it seems that at times like this, I only focus on the fact that The Tall One's raise came later than promised (yet forget the very generous Christmas bonus he received) or think that it always seems we are spending extra money to visit urgent care instead of our primary care doctors (but I forget that Monkey's birth cost about half of what we thought it would) or get frustrated by the fact that we get the car fixed only to have it break again (but forget that we've since found a wonderful mechanic that charges incredibly reasonable rates).

The bad tends to cloud the good, but it shouldn't be that way. Life happens, but overall my family has been incredibly blessed and I need to remember the good too.