Kicking off 2013 with some good old fashioned Karma- 1/1/13

Happy new year guys.

I had no intentions of posting today.  We had a massive night and I am exhausted.  We are probably the luckiest people in the world as we know some people who have rented a unit in the city of Sydney that overlooks the harbour bridge and we spent the night watching the fireworks from the 22nd floor balcony.  We were only going to stay for the 9pm fireworks but ended up staying until after the midnight ones and I am so thankful we did.  Awesome does not sum up the night.  In fact I can only think of swear words to describe just how awesome it was!!  I have some cool pics to share tomorrow!!

After battling the traffic we ended up driving over the harbour bridge, flipping a u-turn to head south.  We got home about 230am to find our dog missing.  He is such a scaredy cat and really freaks out when there is thunder or fireworks and apparently the fireworks in our town were going off last night and even thought the HOTH left the door open so the dogs could hang out inside he took off. 

I drove around looking for him with no luck and we went to bed hoping that someone had found him and he was ok.  We got up this morning and I thought to check our local facebook page and there he was.  A private message and an hour or so later and he was delivered to our door by 2 awesome people.  I cannot describe how much gratitude I have to have him home safe and sound.  We were all so happy to see him even if 10 minutes later he was back to trying to steal the kids food!!

Moral of the story- Karma, what goes around comes around and for all the times we have taken in a wandering dog and found its owner it has completely worked in our favour!!   Oh and make sure I buy new tags for the dogs collars but I am on to that tomorrow!!

Karma, random acts of kindness/pay it forward will feature heavily around here this year.  It can take something as simple as helping someone with directions or helping someone reach something on a shelf to make a difference in someones day and its something I have always tried to do.  Imagine if every person in the world did one nice thing for just one other person everyday/  Sometimes the little things can matter the most. 

The picture from facebook.

So for the first time in 2013 (yes I keep writing the date so I get used to it!!) I am linking up with Essentially Jess for IBOT. 

Oh and guess who is halfway through her first book in the 13/13 challenge?!