You drag yourself and your family through a rough time, see the light at the end of the tunnel and normality begin to descend again. Only to have the rug pulled from underneath once more. A little voice laughs at you and says 'nope we're not done messing with you yet deary.'
It's not like we haven't had a hard enough year already, but no now life wanted to have a pop directly at my little girl; take a nine year old child and strip away all her self-confidence and make her feel useless. All as a result of a few unkind words from those who would be her friends.
Of everything we have had to face this year I think that was by far the worst, watching the vivacious young girl we raised break down piece by piece in front of us. Just feeling completely helpless!
In the middle of fighting to build our munchkin back up into the confident and happy girl she was we randomly entered a competition to win tickets to see the Imagine Dragons, a band both of us love.
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I had to be told twice when the e-mail came to say we had won tickets, not least because various other things had conspired to make us available on the night we had won the tickets for. And the look on her face was priceless when I told her she was going to get to see one of her favourite bands. This one thing has brought a smile to her face this week, it's given her something good to aim for. I have no idea what brought everything together so nicely but it is such amazing timing.
Life will keep knocking you down it seems, but every now and then the stars align....someone smiles down on you and things work out to give you a little miracle just when it is most needed.
So keep on getting up, keep on moving forward and don't miss the miracles!!
For now I'll leave you with Munchkin 1's favourite song and look forward to her first concert experience this evening.
Have you ever experienced one of those well timed little miracles before? Where all the stars seem to align just when you needed them to the most.
I'm so sorry that you've had such a rough go of it. It seems that 9-year-old girls of a certain variety are some of the cruelest people in the world. But. But... how exciting that you get to go see Imagine Dragons! My own monkeys would be green with envy. What a fantastic experience to win something so lovely. Everyone needs to just win sometimes. Cheers!
ReplyDeleteOh and it was amazing....right down to the riot of people at the merchandise stall. I think my munchkin is hooked and planning her next gig already, just what she needed!!
DeleteI have had those moments. And, I'm so glad you had one. Hope you two had a fabulous time!
ReplyDeleteJulie, one word......AWESOME!!!!
DeleteAhh, well, that would do as an excuse! Glad everything worked out so well - hopefully things will keep on the up for you from here! :)
ReplyDeleteThere are always ups and downs I guess, as long as the ups remind you that the downs are worth it.....and this one really did ;-)
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