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Remembering to breathe

Sometimes you just need to remember to breathe. It’s something I have to remind myself now and then. It was a week of surprises in the Patterson household last week. A rather large leak emerged under the kitchen sink.

Sometimes you just need to remember to breathe. It’s something I have to remind myself now and then.

It was a week of surprises in the Patterson household last week. A rather large leak emerged under the kitchen sink. My fiancé’s car unexpectedly had to go into the shop. A sudden, and far more than expected wedding cost, loomed. This was all on the week a few wedding bills came due. It was enough to raise stress levels and test our combined resiliency.

No one likes it when something comes out of the blue and knocks us out of our warm and comfy lives. We just have to breathe, chart a course forward and remember things usually have a way of working out in the end.

The leak under the sink was fixed after a quick call to a plumber, about 20 minutes of his time and a new section of flex pipe.

My fiancé and I were concerned when her car wouldn’t start. A turn of the key resulted in a nasty grinding sound.

“Sounds bad,” said a neighbour walking by.

“Sounds expensive,” I replied.

I steadied myself for a bill in excess of $500. Thankfully, it was solved with by a new battery cable under the hood. I was delighted to hear it was a quick, easy and quite inexpensive fix. What was looking like an unplanned $1,300 wedding bill (and a source of lost sleep) was dealt with by deciding to walk away and find a considerably less costly plan B. Wedding bills are wedding bills. We have eight weeks to go and I just have to remember that we have a plan and it’s going to work out before we celebrate our wedding bells.

As tense as I was to see the bills piling up, I can put it in perspective and know that there are people who are facing much more significant problems than I.

Cars will break down. Pipes will leak. They can be fixed.

Life happens. Just breathe.

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