lessons

It was a nice warm day today, doesn't feel at all like you would expect the first week of January to feel. We took the lil ones to storytime at the library this morning and got some lunch and went to the park to eat. They had such fun playing on the stuff there...you wouldn't think they had any slides or swings or anything at home to play with lol. They all passed out in the car going home...such tired lil munchkins.
I was thinking about Lori's poem about lessons....and I really believe that all things happen for a reason. That everything that happens to us teaches us something we needed to know...even the painful stuff. That old axiom about 'one door closes and another opens' comes true, sometimes it just takes a while to realize it . An old friend is lost, but another comes along.. not necessarily better or worse, not the same but a friend non the less. Maybe one we need at the stage of life we are in to teach us something? I don't know. It just makes me feel better about stuff sometimes to think that there is a reason for things even if I don't know the reason!