My Birthday Present and other ramblings

MSH got me the best birthday present. He bought a package of six Astros tickets for Sundays. We are going to a game every other Sunday until the end of September. I love love going to Astros games. We went to the first one this past Sunday. We got there at the end of the 3rd inning because of the going away luncheon for the Nelsons. I really wanted to stay and eat lunch. We stayed until 12:45 and then ran home to change clothes and then we drove to Minute Maid Park. We had to pay $15 to some guy who I really don't thing was from the lot we were in. He gave us a ticket and I looked at the tickets in all the cars we walked past and none were like our ticket. We saw one car that even had a boot on it. But we really did not have a choice. We were worried about our car being there when the game was over. It was and all is well. But I don't think we will do that again. The game was a total loss. We thought the Astros were doing really good by the sound of the crowd when when we were walking in. After we got to our seats, we realized that most of the people there were Cub Fans. Whatever...

Two babies from Alvin were born around the same time and at the same hospital that my cousin's grandson was born. These two babies got some kind of virus while in the hospital and both are very very sick. The virus attacked their heart. One baby is on the heart transplant list. I think this is so sad. It just shows that you never know..

PW (Pioneerwoman) recently had a post about "Change of Plans" you can read it here. This is what she wrote:

How similar is your life now to how you imagined it ten years ago? Twenty years ago? Are you exactly where you imagined you’d be? Or are you constantly asking yourself, “How did I get here?” Do you mourn the unrealized plans in your life? Or are you happy no matter what your circumstances?

She talks about how her life is now compaired to how she thought it was going to turn out. She left the comments open and let people comment about how their life is now compaird to how they had planned it or imagioned it was going to be. Try reading some of the stories. It tells me that most people's lives have not turned out like was thought they would. Some have turned out better and some have turned out much worse then they could have imagined. It was refreshing for me to read through some of the comments. I like what number 156 said...

God does indeed know the plans He has for us, whether they line up with ours or not.

We look at our lives now and I know we could NEVER have imagined how they would be now and how they would turn out. Little did we know what God had in store for us. For the most part we were patiently waiting for his will to be done. I am living my dream come true. I hoped and prayed for a life like I have today. I am blessed beyond anything I could ever have imagined.