Beauty in the Unexpected

Expected:  alarm goes off at 4:40am
Actual:  woke up on my own at 4:43am and noticed I had set the alarm wrong

Expected:  rain from night before continuing so I could skip boot camp
Actual:  no rain.  no excuses

Expected:  pain in the form of Patty The Boot Camp Lady
Actual:  OK, so some things happened as expected

Expected: come home to a quiet, sleeping house
Actual:  as I pull into the garage, a sweet little girl face peeked out of the door to greet me

Expected: check email and facebook, do some cleaning, make some breakfast while all is quiet
Actual:  snuggle under a quilt (actually she was under the quilt, I was still hot and sweaty from boot camp), have the kind of deep discussions that only happen when there are no distractions and the world is dark and quiet, then play one game of Slap Jack, one game of War, and one game of Go Fish

Expected:  life as usual
Actual:  the best morning I have had in a very long time