What do you take for granted?

What do you take for granted?

When you get out of bed in the morning, what do you expect to find? How do you know that you will get out of bed? Will there be electricity there when you reach for the light switch? Has the coffee pot timer started the coffee on time, will there be hot water for your shower? Will the milk that you pour on your cereal be fresh smelling and taste good? Will the car start and will you make it to work (?) in one piece and on time? Will the sun come up? Will you see your family again or will it all come to an end before…?

Now I was out in the back yard cleaning up that famous dog fertilizer that the two loving monsters deposit there every day when I started thinking about this blog stuff, it rhymes with the “dog stuff”.

First, I wonder about my kids, they are really young men, ages 24, 22 and 18. Hi Aimee, my daughter, you are one of my kids too (37) but I don’t wonder about you taking what I do for granted. You are a proven adult and are very capable of making great decisions, congratulations on the trip to Paris!

Now it is 10:30 AM, Saturday when the oldest son is leaving so I ask him when he is going to fix his car so that I can have my car back, it’s been about 2 months. 2 weeks ago we worked on the breaks and got that solved only to find that now it has a water leak… so it is parked in my driveway and he is still driving my Saturn. That’s OK but if I hadn’t stopped him and asked “what are your plans for the Taurus?” I think that there would not be any plans… So that started me thinking about this “Taking things for granted” stuff. Why is it that young people do not see the need to make plans that will secure them a secure, confident and full life? Do they think ahead more than “tomorrow”?

When I break from the poop pickup around noon, to have lunch, I go in the house and find son #3 sitting on his butt watching TV, did he ever think that may be his father could use some help in the yard? When his mom came home from the store did he get up and offer to unload the car? I don’t know; I was out in the yard picking up poop. I know that if I tell him to do a particular job, he will do it. But he will only do just what I told him to do, nothing extra. No motivation here? He is a good student and so far has stayed out of trouble, thank you.

So I’m just been thinking out loud, again… I'm going to say that "Responsibility" is the key word here. Next...

What do you do with your dog’s poop? I collect it in a bucket of water and pour it down the sewer clean out followed by a bucket of clean water. Just a thought… Hope that you do not put it in the garbage, Yuk!