The Buckets by Greg Cravens for July 09, 2024

Oops! Lol!

LOL Love it!

My dad often said, “When you’re older, you can do as you like.” I’m 70, he’s long gone, and I’m still waiting to be old enough. (as toby said, “Uh oh!”)

I agree! I think the difference is in our learning to just get on with the “don’t like”, to get to the “do like” & not spend time whinging about Having To Do the “don’t like”? Tho, being almost 70, there’s new things on the “don’t like” list that take a lil adjustment to just getting on with it! {snirckle}

Wouldn’t that be nice….not. So everyone would just eat snacks, watch tv, play games, order meals online, never pay bills, not go to work and then die with a smile on their face?

He should have thought that one all the way through. But, I had to learn the hard way a couple of times myself.

In the over 50 years that I have been a wife/mother, I don’t want to think about how many meals I have fixed. I’m tired.

The Dawn breaks in Toby-Town… ☺

Hopefully lesson learned, how only doing what you like effects others. We are all in this thing together.

Is that a thing? I wish I could go back to being a kid, but then again I don’t. Adulting is for the birds!

My mother, not a born disciplinarian, was so fed up with non-response from her children (ahem, myself and my older brother) that I remember her parading back and forth in front of the new (1956) TV set banging pot lids to get us to the table for dinner. Not elegant, but it worked. And then there was her best friend, her brother’s wife, my dear aunt, who WAS a born disciplinarian, and who had raised her family of younger siblings after her mother died. When her youngest daughter would not keep her room to my aunt’s standards. she emptied her daughter’s dresser and closet onto to the lawn beneath daughter’s window. Now, you have to understand, this was in a time and place when this was EXCRUCIATINGLY mortifying. I come from a family of…interesting…women and I am SO grateful for it!