Plan A:

My husband and I will raise five kids and have two vicious dogs, we will also have a great amount of backyard space enough to have some family and friends over for cookouts in the summer.
On the weekdays I will be teaching at one of the kindergartens in Beverly where my days start early but end early also, enough time to spend with my kids, making dinner and doing homework with them. My husband won't work later than 5pm that way we can always have a family meal together. Financially I will be stable and so will my husband. Being able to buy anything when I need to but also have enough to pay my house and bills.
Life would be perfect, some ups and downs here and there but always getting through the tough parts.
A Twist ...
We all know that these future predictions may or may not happen the way we want it too or maybe it won't at all and only pieces of it happen. We have to live for what we have.
Five years later..
I have graduated college and have started a permanent position at a preschool as an assistant teacher, I'm living on my own and things are on the right track. Until I receive a phone call from my grandmother, her voice is joyful yet anxious. She starts to explain to me how my grandfather got approved from the judges in Peru and in the U.S for him to come back and start his life as a resident. Once I receive these news I knew for a fact that our lives were going to change and things were going to me amazing. My grandfather is our equator, he keeps us stable and happy. A month passes by and I'm at the airport .... waiting ... 20 mins later there he is, all smiles walking toward me. All I do is smile and cry. He finally gets to hug me and say " I'm back home."
After having my grandfather back our lives got better. My family spent more time together and support for out lives grew stronger. I was able to be complete and fully happy again. Having my grandfather see my brother, my uncle, and myself succeed was the best feeling ever.
Plan B:
My assistant position didn't last at this elementary school because they didn't have enough in the budget to continue to pay for me. So I went on craigslist searched for new teaching positions but I had no luck.

So I grabbed all my baggage and moved out to Iowa. There I had a place to stay which was financially acceptable. The nanny job included everything like food, a car, and a room in case I didn't have a place to stay. I wanted to continue to stay independent and manage my own necessities so the room wasn't necessary.
This family was very wealthy and kind. They took me in as if they had already knew me. While nannying I kept looking for work back home (which is Boston) but I had no luck and started to give up. This twist in my life had become a lifestyle and left me living in Iowa and actually enjoying myself with new company and a new life. It was definitely nothing I wanted or had planned for but I had to continue my life.
Grace
Grace
With every rain drop,
every sunshine,
and every leaf that fall
the earth moves and changes everyday,
my life is slowly moving in directions I didn't know it could move in.
Time passes by,
slowly...
Yet I find myself lost.
The winds push and shove me in different ways,
Again I am lost.
I start to regain faith and hope,
Positivity is on my shoulders.
I get the sense of happiness and joy.
oh boy..
A path I know I could follow into my dreams.
A new life,
new beginning,
everything just seems so right.
looking up at the light,
seems to me that I'm alive.

With every rain drop,
every sunshine,
and every leaf that fall
the earth moves and changes everyday,
my life is slowly moving in directions I didn't know it could move in.
Time passes by,
slowly...
Yet I find myself lost.
The winds push and shove me in different ways,
Again I am lost.
I start to regain faith and hope,
Positivity is on my shoulders.
I get the sense of happiness and joy.
oh boy..
A path I know I could follow into my dreams.
A new life,
new beginning,
everything just seems so right.
looking up at the light,
seems to me that I'm alive.
Nicole,
ReplyDeleteGreat post! This post has lots of great story twists and very fine details. It's very practical and realistic - yet it's still highly entertaining. Which plan will pan out? Iowa?
Whoa.
Excellent poem this week. I think it's one of your strongest in that it is very creative and nearly abstract. Beautiful. You've focused on the language and let the meaning figure itself out.
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