when serendipity calls, you answer

You may not believe me, and that’s fine, but I swear that the following is true.

So today was a so-so day. Loenne was off her regular nap schedule and was kind of cranky and out of sorts all day because of it,  so I didn’t get anything done that I’d hoped to, because she wasn’t napping. Amazing how a baby loves a schedule! We were in limbo all day, very blaaahhh. I’m sure we’ve all been there.  I never expected that the day would turn into such an unusual one.

On a day to day basis, I spend a lot of time breastfeeding. Accumulatively over the past six months I can’t imagine the number of hours. I don’t mind at all, really. It’s very calming for her and I. But needless to say- it can be a little boring. It’s a lot of time to think, or watch tv, or whatever. Usually just think. Today for some reason- my random thinking topic was ice skating. My train of thought went something like this. . . When does a child learn how to skate?  3? 4? (insert visual of the 3 year old Gosselin sextuplets skating with chairs. I know, I can’t believe I just admitted that but that’s what I thought of. So kill me.) I haven’t skated in years. (insert memories of 6 years of figure skating, one year of hockey, remember that time I fell on my tailbone and hurt my ass so bad I still can’t sit for longer than an hour. Damn.) I wonder how bad I’d be now. I need to get some skates.  .  . I’d love to go skating this winter.  .  . Do I get hockey skates or figure skates? . . . I’m probably not very steady anymore so the blades on figure skates would probably be better for me.  And daintier.  . . Then I can push off from my little pick toes if I’m really terrible now. . . Yeah, I’ll get some figure skates.  .  .Maybe I can find them used somewhere. .  . Yawn.

A few hours later I went for a walk with Loenne and my neighbour and her baby boy. Not a block from our houses did we stumble upon a pair of figure skates hanging by their blades on a chain link fence. What the fun? Flashback to this morning thinking about skating, that was almost coincidence enough for me. 

We stopped and laughed at the randomness. (I don’t know if other cities and towns are like this, but in Toronto if people don’t want something and they are too lazy to take it to goodwill they just leave things on the sidewalk. Boxes of books, furniture, toys, small appliances, dishes, furniture. . . and no, it’s not just garbage, it’s for the taking.) So I examined them a little further and they looked like they might be my size so I decided to try them on there on the sidewalk. And guess what? THEY FIT PERFECTLY. And I have size 10 feet. They look like they’ve never even been worn. I tucked those beauties right into the stroller basket.  Suddenly, I was a person who owned skates.

Crazy, right? Crazy awesome.It’s just so wild that I was just thinking about how I wanted to get some, then they just show up, for free. These kinds of things don’t really happen to me. What does this mean?  Doesn’t matter. I felt really special, completely tickled, still do! 

I can’t wait to go skating this winter!!!!!!

aren't they gorgeous?