Lessons In Life – Stop Sweating The Small Stuff

Hindsight is a wonderful teacher and in this case I really wish I had had the benefit of this last Friday.

You see we were going away for the weekend and you know how it is…..

You are just trying to get all those jobs done and get the car packed and check the kids have not forgotten anything (or you for that matter)

You rush around and make sure the neighbours have a key to feed that cats and rabbits

Then just as you do a last minute check around you realise one of the cats is upstairs where she should not be so…….

You chase her down because if not then she would have been trapped upstairs all weekend and well you can imagine the mess we would come home to.

You give her a kiss as you go out the door as she settles into her bed in the kitchen and off you go feeling very relieved to have averted a rather nasty mess to come home to on Sunday night.

However……..

By Monday night we were bitterly regretting finding her upstairs on Friday

Why?

Well, if she had been left upstairs making a mess all weekend then she would still be alive (we would be hopping mad I am pretty sure of that, but at least we would have still got her to snuggle and to love)

You see she got killed on our lane on Saturday night because she was able to be outside.

The lesson we learned is maybe we should not get so wrapped up in the small stuff and small mess – no matter how mad it might make you because you never know what other bigger more horrible mess might have been created.

RIP Jemima … we loved you xxxxxx