Day 11 NaBloPoMo at yeah write guest blogger: yeah write editor Courtenay Baker

Hey, all!  We’re in the second trimester of NaBloPoMo!

I don’t know if you’ve ever been pregnant, but the second tri is the one that’s supposed to be the most comfortable and awesome. You’ve made it past morning sickness and haven’t yet hit third trimester exhaustion.  I was a very lucky pregnant lady (if you don’t count the two miscarriages, that was pretty unlucky); I only barfed once with Milo and once with the twins. I was sleepy, but not moody.  My at-the-time husband never had to run out to find Circus Peanuts or hot and sour soup to feed a craving.  And I was generally comfortable and happy through the entirety of all three term pregnancies. Even the one with the twins when I measured a whopping 56cm at the appointment 5 days before they were born. That is a year and a month pregnant. Like an elephant.

Anyway, if you believe in talismans and prophesy and karma, today (11/11) just might be auspicious for you. I’m not sure it is for me, because my sense of karma and luck has pretty much been turned on its ear in the last ten months.  

There are nights when I wish on stars, days when I puff dandelion fluff on the wind, and I always search for lucky pennies on the sidewalk. It hasn’t helped a whole lot. Or at all, but for just one moment, I suspend my disbelief and allow myself to think “If I won the lottery…” or “When I wake up from 2013…” or “Who do I need to screw to get some better luck around here?”  

But, all in all, change is just that. Change. It’s neither good nor bad—just different.  And there are things about different that are both good and bad and, ironically, indifferent.  

Sure, there are days (many of them this year) when I curse fate, when I raise my fists and my voice to the universe and howl the cry of the forlorn. But most days, I don’t. Most days, I look at the four most beautiful children every created and I am happy to  thank my lucky stars that I have them in my life.  And that’s the best luck there is. 

So, tell me, what has karma done for you lately?

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