Luck on my side

Ask my mom, Tae or my friends.  One of the things they'll say about me is that I have luck on my side.  Certain "lucky" things happen only to me.  For example, last year, I won a two-night/three day vacation to Minerals Resort & Spa (yes, I realize it's a Jersey vacation but still!).  About five years ago, the cashier at Target mistook a barcode scan beep from another aisle with hers and I ended up not being charged for an entire bundle of paper towels.  Almost 10 years ago on my 29th birthday, I won $1,000 in cash at Mohegan Sun Casino doing a promotional blackjack card swipey thing.  Just this past holiday season, a beautiful blue enamel bracelet from J. Crew was included with my online order - I did not order the bracelet!  You get the idea.

Last night, Tae and I attended a Reading and Writing Workshop at Buckley hosted by Lauren's Kindergarten teacher Mrs. Bianca Lavey.  Each family was given a raffle number.  Our number was 5.  It wasn't a 10 or an 8 (my personal lucky numbers).  One of the raffle prizes was a beautiful basket filled to the brim with books, writing instruments, post-its and bookmarks.  The second was a recommended book about reading and literacy development in children.  After Mrs. Lavey's presentation, the raffle was drawn.  One of the First Grade teachers got up to pick the first number.  FIVE!  We won the beautiful basket!!!  I had a feeling I would win.  ;-)  Apparently, so did Tae.  The girls of course were so thrilled when we came home with this beautiful basket.  We will open it together tomorrow, Fri, February 8th when we are all home together.

I always hesitated acknowledging my random lucky streaks because to me a person with luck eventually runs out of luck too.  But I guess I will continue to believe and live like luck is on my side.