I am up, oooooooh so late, catching up on laundry and all that I have let go in order to go to an adoptive parent training/seminar thingy as well as spend some time with the old guy who was at a pastor's conference in the same small city as the deal I wanted to attend :) (whew... what a sentence... but wait there are more!)
Awake,,, alone,,, in the middle of the night,,, I have a tendency to blog many things in my mind. I decided it was time to commit some of them to the www for my kids, because there are so many things I wish my mom could/would have told me about if only...
If only she knew how blessed she would be, going to heaven at such a young earthly age (54)
If only she knew that the Lord would graciously spare her the trials of old age and a husband with serious health issues...
If only we both could have realized that knowing the every day stuff of her life would have been of such interest to me...
If only she knew how badly I would someday want to know every single thing about her life, her childhood, her teenage years, and all kinds of things that I could not have thought to ask back when (I was 35 when she died and wow... now that I am 51 there is a ton that I would like to have chatted with her about in the last 15 years... teenagers? menopause? high blood pressure? relatives I heard some, but not enough about? we would have spent lots of time on Yahoo! chat or texting on our cell phones --both of which were after my mom's time-- ...and travel... oh gosh, it is a huge sadness that I did not have money to vacation with my mom back when... she would have LOVED going to Florida and sitting on the beach all day with me and my dear friend Sobra-- who incidentally would have loved to have her mom vacation with her as well... and plus, my mom and Sob's mom would have had such a great time with us, both of them being big coffee drinkers, avid readers, not to mention their mutual nicotine addiction).
OK... so it started with a goofy thought while folding clothes at 2am:
Have you ever gone back and forth in your attempts to save money and simplify?
For instance:
Every once in a while I think about conditioner... the stuff you use after you shampoo? And I think: not only do I buy the way too expensive kind! but also, when I was young (I walked to school, in the snow, barefoot, uphill... BOTH WAYS) my mother not only did not buy conditioner (we called it cream rinse back in the olden days), but she told me that using a little vinegar was just as good, in fact better, than cream rinse (UGH!). And every so often I decide to go the cheap conditioner route (though I draw the line at vinegar), and I get used to it... and I think "Why would anyone spend big money on those brand names when this is perfectly fine?? After all, I didn't have conditioner when I was a kid."
And then, who knows how or why, I happen to use the more expensive FABULOUS brand and, snot and heck, my hair feels GREAT! and all day long, whenever I touch my hair I think: MY HAIR FEELS GREAT! And I not only think I will never buy that crap brand again, but my kids should be using this expensive stuff too! Cuz good grief... I want my kids to have just as good a feeling about their hair!
And then, money gets a little tight and I start thinking: Oh this other stuff will be fine for the kids. It's kid's hair for crying out loud... they will never even notice. So I do it. I start buying the way cheaper stuff for the kids. After a bit, still trying to cut back and be frugal in every area I start thinking: well if it is good enough for the kids, it will be good enough for me, too. And I motor along like that until, who knows how or why, I happen to use the more expensive FABULOUS brand and, well you know the rest.
And I WANT MY KIDS TO KNOW THIS ... and I THINK THEY SHOULD REALIZE the goofy, dumb stuff that their mom wasted brain power on back in the 70's, 80's, 90's and so on, right up until the time when she finally had no more kids at home (I am looking at the year 2020 here) and bought whatever dog gone kind of conditioner she felt like!!! just sayin' .
And PLUS I have LOTS more stuff where this came from.
Did I mention I was up way too late?
5 comments:
Thanks again for the laugh! I love your way of thinking. I have thoughts like that all the time and especially when I am up late. Actually, when I am really tired I will laugh hysterically at everything--so good for my heart:)) Heading out to meet with Beth and Tammy Holt in a little over an hour.
Sheri
so this may be why I am stuck with the conundrum of finding cream rinse that works great and is cheap. but I did find Tresemme which has worked great!!
Unbelieveable in that as I walked out of Wal-Mart the other day, I didn't buy conditioner because I have never liked the way it makes my hair feel. Then I got to thinking how we used to call it creme rinse and back then we couldn't afford it anyway so I never got used to it. Is it a 50 year old mindset to remember creme rinse yet be unable to sleep at night? What will 60 be like?
I second the Tresemme thing. You get a really big bottle for not a lot of money and it work tolerably well. I am thinking of buying some of the expensive extra-rich kind and using it maybe once every two weeks, but the Tresemme is ok for every day use.
I do the same thing. I love the expensive kind, but go back and forth. I deserve the good stuff - no, I don't NEED it, I need to save money....and on it goes.
I never used it as a kid either...weird.
You are so funny, you really made me laugh!
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