Home alone last night, listening to loud music on my record player I was baking cupcakes for a baby shower. While dancing and whisking, I was thinking about how I least expected myself to be baking for money, which then got me thinking about what else in my life I have least expected. And walah, a blog post was born...
So, on the top of my list:
1) Being a mom to a most beautiful little girl (who pushes my buttons like no one else can, who makes me feel beautiful when I am least beautiful and who lifts my spirits in the most simple ways)
2) Being a Pilates Instructor and teaching for a living. ( I am constantly amazed at how much I enjoy this! And seeing the differences in peoples bodies as they commit to doing regular exercise, seeing the strength in their muscles improve and how their movements become easier and more fluid, I thoroughly enjoy this, and really I would never have even gone down this pathway if I hadn't become pregnant)
3) Baking for money. ( I have always enjoyed baking but to think that people pay me to bake their cakes for them, constantly surprises me. I love the creativity of this and that most people allow me to come up with the look to conform to their ideas - so far, my favourite has to be the bicycle wedding cake. I mean, really, me making someones wedding cake! I Never would of thought.
4) Staying in one place for longer than a year. ( Yes, from 1999 after the first time I went to the UK, I went backwards and forwards, never setting down roots, never staying longer than a year, always leaving, not having a constant job, people came and went and now, its been 3 years since I arrived back for the last time, and here I am. Settled, but still with itchy feet... hence my decision to go over to the UK at the end of August for a visit to my mother and hopefully a little bit of travelling... but, I will then be returning to carry on building up my life here)
5) Living with a man where there is no physical affection. ( I still remember a conversation I had with another woman a good many years ago, about how her and her partner never kissed and I just thought that was a terrible thing. Alas, I am in a relationship where the most kisses are pecks of goodbyes in the mornings. This bothered me terribly for a long time. But I seem to have come to a place where I have accepted it. I was chatting to my landlady the other day, whose mother, at the age of 84 got remarried, I thought, well, there is hope yet;-))
And I am sure there are many more things I have least expected in my life, which has happened, but for now this is it.
3 comments:
Wow, we have similar things... No. 4 and 5 are also on my list!
hmm, what did i never expect - well i'm sure you know the biggest one?
To be married to a farmer and living on a farm in the boonies! And to have a red-haired daughter. And to feel such an intense love when I look at both my girls. And to have such an amazing husband.
xx
I never thought that one day I would be in full time ministry to the poor. NEVER! But what a blessing that turned out to be.
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