Sammie
Right now I’m staring at this blue-eyed chunk of sweetness, my grand-daughter Sammie. She lives in Costa Rica with her mommy and daddy who are career missionaries…they left after Christmas with ‘our baby’, our unexpected treasure. Random chance that she is here? I don’t think so. Random chance that her parents met each other on the last raft trip of the summer in Wyoming two short years ago? I don’t think so. Random chance that our daughter was invited to go with her best friend on this random vacation? I don’t think so. Random chance that her new best friend had taught with me and then got a pink slip and landed in my daughter’s building? I don’t think so. Random chance that Em, felt dissatisfied and knew that she wouldn’t be teaching in her beloved school forever? I don’t think so. Random chance that she had even become a teacher after viewing herself as ‘Katie Couric’ since she was nine? I don’t think so. Random chance that she was the most spirited one year old alive and that twenty-seven years later she would give birth to a giggle monster with strawberry blonde hair and a temperament that just sings? I don’t think so. God’s humor, God’s love, God’s missionary baby…It can’t be random…it couldn’t be planned any more perfectly than this. …snip, snap, snout this tale is told out.
Two years and finishing strong... 
What a sweetie! I love the repetitive phrase and the thinking that followed it. Life takes interesting twists and turns.
Your granddaughter is darling, & I love the way you told your story. Random chance, I don’t think so! I imagine we’ll be connecting as I have two granddaughters & a grandson. Lucky to be grandmothers!
Amazing, the “random chances” of a divine hand! And your daughter and her husband sure do make cute babies!