Choices

I was thinking about what to do for Matthews first birthday the other day. I can’t believe that it is just a little over 3 months away!! I got to thinking about how awful his birthday is going to be. There is cold weather, party right before Christmas, getting jipped of presents and all the things that go with having a December birthday. Then I stared wishing that we had just waited so I could plan a nice spring birthday party. This got me thinking though, if we had waited would we still get Matthew? Maybe, maybe not; we will never know for sure but I’m going to stick with being happy I have a December baby because he is great and I wouldn’t trade him for the world! Much less a spring birthday party! It also got me thinking about all our everyday choices and the consequences they have. Something so small cold lead to something so big! What if I never went with Megan to home depot that day, what if I decided to stay at UNCG instead of coming home? I wonder how different things would be but I am happy with the way they turned out. It’s funny because some on those choices were sooo small yet big things came from them. I wonder how the people who for some reason or another never got on the doomed planes of 9/11 feel? Lucky to be alive among other things I’m sure. I have a relative who couldn’t make a flight a few years ago and that plane crashed killing all on board. My dads friend made a choice to let her 8 year old son ride on the back of a 4 wheeler at a birthday. He fell off in a freak way and broke his neck =(. And that mother who was told her premature son was dead. She chose to hold and cuddle him for awhile and he came back to life!! Makes you wonder about your everyday choices doesn’t it?