You know what’s not overrated?

A nice, simple (boring, even) life…

It’s safe to say that when they were handing out lives, there weren’t any nice, simple, boring ones left when I got to the front of the line. Oh, I’ve got stories to tell, and some of them are amusing. Some are terrifying. Some I wouldn’t believe if I hadn’t lived them.

Many of our stories are about complications. Hurdles. Setbacks. Frustrations. Disappointments.

But there are also hard-won victories — some of which lasted and others that didn’t.

My husband, Irish, always says, “Baby, if it was easy, it wouldn’t be us.”

We have an anything but simple life.