After the kids being home 4 of the past 5 days, they finally go back to school today, yea! I think even they are excited as the last 2 days have pretty much been spent inside the house. Mom did get each of them a play date yesterday which helped some but I think they were still kind of bored and tired of being stuck in the house. We finally will all wake up today with no house guests. No matter how easy or good your guests are, it’s always a great day when they finally leave and you can get back to your family routine.
My wife and I were talking about yesterday’s post (the part at the end) where it talked about life for our parents and grandparents. She talked to her Mom before she (her Mom), read the post and asked about her experiences as a little girl. I guess it was pretty similar as she told my wife they didn’t have running water until she was in high school. They also had a big tank to collect water that they filled with charcoal to filter out the impurities. I think she said that a lot of the time the water was more or less unfiltered as they didn’t always have money for coal. Funny how we’re only a generation removed from such a different way of life.
If you’ve been reading along daily, you might think we’re some kind of survivalists. Well relax. You see, we really don’t subscribe to this type of thinking as most of those people (I think) are planning on some sort of Armageddon fast approaching. We on the other hand just have little faith in the government being able to take care of anyone in a time of crisis. If you look at events such as Hurricane Katrina or the foreclosure problem facing many family’s, our government has all kinds of expensive programs designed to take care of these people, but they never seem to actually work. Having a couple of young children prompts us to try to have some basic living supplies on hand to get by in the event stores run out of things for an extended period of time. This is mainly food as I’m sure our kids would go into some sort of coma if they didn’t eat every 30 minutes! Anyhow we kind of see a time where people are going to have to be more self reliant as many of the comforts we have today will either be too expensive or unavailable in the future. I don’t think anyone can argue the fact that things will not continue status quo or as they are right now. There’s just too much that needs fixing whether it be social security, the economy in general, the nations food supply, our bridges and roads, etc. If you really think about it, you get the picture. We just don’t have the money as a nation to fix everything. As I said a few weeks ago, we need to start building and buying things in America again.
Oh well, enough of my rant on what’s wrong with our Country. At least I’ve stayed away from politics. (my wife won’t let me go there) Remember to live each day like it’s your last as you never know!
In closing, if anyone has any stories to tell from when they were kids (all you grandma’s out there), leave us a comment and will include it in a coming post.
best,
Side note : 2 Â note worthy additions….First, the youngest tripped over, or was tripped by his brother yesterday and knocked out his loose tooth. It is the first tooth he has lost.
Second, during this deep freeze..while the boys were suffering from cabin fever…I asked the youngest…”Why are you behaving so badly”, to which he replied, “Maybe because I am related to 2 kings”. There you have it, one simple statement that explains it all!!
Have a great day!
LLF