Stuck Is A Good Thing

Stuck stinks. Here we were, ready to leave our campsite, my husband sweaty and tired from working on leveling the trailer--again, and we got stuck in the mud. We had a notion it might happen since we've been in this situation before. Last year, we had endured the same frustration so this year, we came prepared. We brought boards and other devices that would help us pull that hunk of metal out of the mud (in case of last day rain), but to no avail. We were spinning tires again. My husband wearily rolled his eyes as he climbed into the truck to go look for the maintenance guy with the tractor. He had planned the day out wisely so we would be home at a decent hour and now, we would be off schedule--something we deemed important at the end of our vacation. He returned a few minutes later and said the maintenance staff could come right away. We were relieved but still impatient.

Upon the tractor's arrival, we noticed something that turned our attention away from the negativity of the situation. Our son was beside himself excited that a huge, green machine with a long, thick chain was rescuing our trailer out of the muck. It dawned on me that just as I had soothed him to sleep that week with stories of tractor rescues, he was getting to witness such an event in reality! He was thrilled beyond measure. My husband and I smiled and retreated from our annoyance and gazed upon this little boy who was reminding us to find something positive in our circumstance. Instead of being anxious to keep our plans perfectly lined up, we enjoyed a moment we would have otherwise missed. We shared a memory with our son and learned that day that sometimes, stuck is a good thing.