{"id":10429,"date":"2015-05-24T22:32:07","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T02:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beginnersheart\/?p=10429"},"modified":"2015-05-24T22:32:07","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T02:32:07","slug":"living-through-the-unexpected-with-equanimity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beginnersheart\/2015\/05\/living-through-the-unexpected-with-equanimity.html","title":{"rendered":"living through the unexpected (with equanimity?)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0This is how we spent two hours Friday: lined up to cross the French Broad River bridge. TWICE. (I’ve been calling it the French Bread River Basin since\u00a0then; it is neither broad nor bread, but certainly it’s worth poking fun at).<\/p>\n

And here’s the catch: we didn’t have<\/i>\u00a0to cross it even once, much less twice: we had the audio turned off on the navigation, & I hadn’t read the map. Remember maps??<\/p>\n

But here’s my payoff: today’s birthday party for my grandson, who turned two. Baking his bday cupcakes — flour everywhere (we’ve already cleaned up a bit in this pic!), and messy hugs. Breaking eggs together and blowing bubbles. Who wouldn’t trade 2 hours on a bridge in bumper2bumper for those??<\/p>\n

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Did I think of those while moving at 7 mph? Of course not. And yet…. It’s hard to get upset when you’re on a road trip w\/ your son, heading to your DIL & grandson. I know<\/i>\u00a0what wonders await me!<\/p>\n

I just have to figure out how to translate this kind of peaceful coexistence w\/ frustration to more mundane challenges. Laundry, I’m looking at you ~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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