Define your life

Go ahead define your life in seven letters or less.  Not seven words but seven letters.  That is what I have chosen to do this past month.  Believe me it is a lot harder than it sounds.

You see - here in Idaho - you have to have a licence plate on your car.  You can choose from a variety of styles - regular scenic , wild life, an air plane, different state school logos - even the armed forces - all can be random numbers and letters or you can personalize them.  My old plates had a school bus on them.

It even stated my pet peeve - cars not stopping for the red lights.  I thought it fit me and even made my husband get them for his car.  These special plates are fund raisers for their different causes or schools.  This campaign was to raise money for student safety regarding busing.  It failed.  Only 90 plates were sold state wide.  So they discontinued these plates and when the time came to get new tags we had to get new plates. 

I didn't want to just get a random number that was hard to memorize and besides - I have grown accustomed to looking at the plate - to make sure it was my car that I was headed for.  You would be surprised at how many white Buick's there are out there. 

So I decided to get a personalized plate.  Since my last plate was a school bus I had a mind set at staying with my job.  I drove "bus 59" - so I thought that would be cool.  But I was not guaranteed to keep that bus so I thought "route 17" would be better.  Turns out just last month they gave me a new bus - glad I didn't get that on my plate.  As far as "route17" - Mandy didn't like that.  She thought that my life shouldn't be defined by my job.  That got me to thinking.

What does define your life.  OK - this is just a license plate - it shouldn't get so philosophical.

So now what?  I started to think of things I liked - crafts - sewing - grand kids - not in that order.  Then there was my faith.  A big part of my life is my faith.  I made the decision to stay away from that for my plate and just keep it light.  "Engage"   "Lv2sew"   "Busdrvr"  "MattSue" Were all ideas that I kicked around.  I looked to see if these were even available - most were not.  Back to the drawing board.

I finally figured it out.  My family was the most important thing to me.  So that is what I went with.

I did wrestle with putting "DCAMGD" on the plate but we never call Mo - Amanda unless we're mad at her and well, Miranda is always in my heart and I didn't want to explain over and over again why the extra "M". - So this is how I define my life in five letters.

I am well pleased with Damon, Cristy, Mandy, Grant and Darren.