Perspective

We've been having unusual weather here. After our multiple snow storms which left inches of snow on the ground, I was utterly convinced that we would have a white Christmas. I was thrilled. Everything was frozen, the ponies could be in the pasture, and it looked pretty. 

And then it didn't.

We've been above freezing for a few days now which began to melt the snow, but it was the hours of rain we had this afternoon that really did most of it in. Pretty much the only snow left is on our driveway, and it's not so much snow as ice. 

But wait, there's more . We're supposed to go back down into the teens tonight, then on Saturday it's supposed to be back up to the 40's, but them back down to the teens at night. Multiple daily 30+ degree temperature changes is not my idea of fun, especially since it means putting on and taking off horse blankets a couple of times a day. As I was putting the horses' coats on them at dinner time, I was decidedly grumpy about it all. 

For some reason, as I was feeling unhappy about the extra work, my brain decided to think about a much younger me playing with her Breyer model horses, happily putting on and taking off their blankets and desperately trying to pretend they were real. 

I was immediately chastened. Here I was with five amazing, beautiful horses who live at my house. It was my childhood dream come true and here I was grousing about dealing with some blankets. Suddenly I wasn't unhappy about my task. Instead I gave Major a hug and happily finished fastening his blanket. 

Thankfulness and gratitude can do amazing things, we just have to remember to flip that lens around if we find ourselves looking through it from the wrong end. 

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