“Cause change and lead;
Accept change and survive;
Resist change and die.”

— Ray Noorda

Would you give up two months of your life for an unplanned adventure?

I am one month into this commitment, and I have no regrets.

I don’t think that I will be traveling this road again; however, I am grateful for the life interruption.

• Has your life been interrupted recently?

• By what?

Frequently, when our plans go out the window and life throws us a curve ball, we are not always happy. Some even might label this kind of calamity Murphy’s Law at work.

I am choosing to see it all differently. I have my plans and my life, and the world around me has other plans for me. I am trying to roll with the changes. After all, isn’t life just a series of changes that we must navigate?

I have let the life interruption of an unplanned puppy pregnancy provide me with lessons and gifts.

It has caused me to slow down and speed up at the same time — but doing it all while staying at home.

It taught me the value of a good night’s sleep.

It forced me to let go of something I was chasing.

It helps me to practice time management and prioritization.

As I do routine chores associated with my dog pack, puppy litter, and my household, I practice mindfulness.

I have learned to accept help when offered (cheerfully and gratefully). This life interruption has stretched my skills and resources. I have come to understand the value of spontaneous help.

I have a new appreciation for new parents and my animal family.

I am sharing the puppy experience with anyone who wants to hold, cuddle, and meet a puppy.

I have learned loads about growing puppies and their relationships with adult dogs.

I have stayed close to home and nested in a house in which I have lived for less than a year.

And, so much more.

I am halfway through the two months of having my life turned topsy-turvy. The next step for these walking, talking, bundles of love is to find wonderful families for each puppy. Letting go will be an emotional challenge, but I accept it as part of the process. I have a hunch that Keller, the mother dog, will also have some separation anxiety. Until then, I am luxuriating in the joys of being a puppy-mother-sidekick. It is an experience I will never forget. Or regret.

It will be nice to pick up the routine of my life from before the puppy invasion. Who knows what event will next take me metaphorically off course?

I embrace that life is about ‘Letting Go and Letting Come.’

I wish you a grand and positive adventure.

Leslie

“Love works in miracles every day:
such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak;
making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools;
favouring the passions, destroying reason,
and in a word,
turning everything topsy-turvy.”

— Margaret of Valois