Lemonade with Laughing Gas

When life throws you lemons, sometimes you must make it into lemonade with a shot of laughing gas!

It's nothing new that life isn't always what or how we expect it to be. Nor do we always end up where we would like to be sometimes. Just when I feel like getting down in the fetal position, or sticking my head under the covers for a month, I like to remember that I am in the driver's seat of my life. I think often we are just along for the ride, without a map or destination. Which, by the way, isn't a bad thing...and is often how I choose to roll - I am a fly by my seat of my pants kinda gal, afterall :) But I believe we are in charge of our own destinies.

I believe that things happen for a reason, although we don't always know the reason at the time. Every now and again we need a little wake up call in our lives, sometimes a whisper, sometimes a slap upside the head, to keep us on our path.

It's at these moments that we have to make lemonade that emits laughing gas from the lemons we are given :)

I will leave you with one of my favourite quotes from the movie Hope Floats:

"Beginnings are scary. Endings are usually sad, but it's what's in the middle that counts. So, when you find yourself at the beginning, just give hope a chance to float up. And it will."

So if you see me standing looking funny and squinting...I am just waiting for my hope to float on up :)