Baby Announcement and General Outlook Changes!!!!

August 2nd is @imaginedragon and I's wedding anniversary and like every year on our anniversary, I request a new baby when she asks me what I want. We have been going through a rough patch these last few years money wise since I have been injured and emotionally since we lost our son and now my wife's mother. I never dared to ask her for another child this year, as life has just been beating the fuck out of us from every direction.

I've been depressed since we lost Roman and my wife has been as well, we finally started to see light again when Finn was born and we started meeting new people here on Steemit. We have always been the type of people to help other's in any fashion we could when we see people in need. Karma, treating others as we want to be treated, a symptom of our ADHA or just morons in general; putting ourselves out, to help others. Whatever, it is what we do because, in our lives, it makes us feel really good to be able to provide for others that we do not know.

I never really give it much thought as I feel anyone can always make more money at any time if they really want to and have the need for it. Not everyone helps themselves, nor do they feel the same way about helping others that we do. That is okay, we are all entitled to live our lives the way we want to live them as long as we are willing to do whatever it takes to achieve our desired life. That is the only freedom we truly have; to help ourselves and to help others. Yes, it is harder for some people to help themselves but that is generally due to personal drive, desire or physical disability. Very rarely is it due to education, opportunity, who they know or where they are from or what color they are. We all have the ability to know what we are good at and the option to do whatever it takes to get ahead or to fail. Everything in between is a personal choice and anything less is an excuse.

Both of us are high school dropouts, we now both hold 4 year degrees. We own our own business, house, vehicles, our kids are clothed and feed and we don't even have a checking or savings account other than our business account. We have not worked in the past 3 years but we have always done what we needed to do in order to make sure the lives we brought into this world have been taken care of and loved all while never knowing we were so poor we could lose everything the next day if things went wrong and we couldn't figure out a hustle to make it through the day.

@Imagiondragon and I allowed ourselves to be temporally defeated with what life has thrown at us. We both decided enough is enough and fuck all of the obstacles, we are putting back on our big boy pants and getting our lives back to who we want to be for our kids and ourselves. So, when she suggested we have a new baby on our anniversary, I agreed and we immediately got started to make sure we would have a new baby as soon as possible. I got the courage to change my downed, depressed and generally fucked self-view of life when some random steemit user sent me 100 Steem out of the blue, no questioned asked and nothing expected in return.

This turned my life outlook from gloom to normal. I am a Leo, by nature my life is ruled by luck, compassion, desire and strength. I've never lost compassion but the other three I allowed to go dormant. The random act of kindness showed to my wife and I in the form of the Steem gift. I am still not sure who the thoughtful person was but you allowed me to become myself again and for that I wish I could thank you.

We have since gotten on our feet again, figured out a new business we can do from home in the medical condition I am in and got 2 new additions to our family which will force us off of our asses and outside into the sunshine and getting some much needed outdoor time in the sun.

Meet Monday...........Officially my first ever personal puppy. He is a blonde Beagle.

and this is Thursday, mom's new blonde Labrador Retriever.

These are our dog's only as far as care-givers go but we hope to teach Snow at 5 responsibility feeding and walking them and the doctors say they will help Dregon with his Autism.

Whatever happens we ended our streak of shit luck with two new wonderful babies and it all started to change with that random act of kindness from a fellow Steemian.

Be kind to each other, you never know how it can change a life.