The Only Way I Know

Sunday morning, and I'm realizing that weekends are much too short! Or maybe that was emphasized this weekend because Sadie is one of those dogs who is awake and alert when daybreak arrives... and wants ME to be awake and alert at that hour too!   Here in the Valley of the Sun, because we don't 'spring forward', day breaks around 5am.  When I leave for work at 5:30, I need my sunglasses as the sun is already up and starting its climb. 

Yesterday was a busy "catch up" kind of day- after being on vacation, and moving my son back home, catching up on grocery shopping, and still trying to hit the gym on a daily basis- yeah, yesterday was a busy day!

At the end of the day, I drove my son over to her apartment.  We delivered the groceries purchased to get her through the weekend.  I spent a lot of time trying to explain to my son that he isn't responsible for making sure there's food in the house for both of them.  That she needs to apply for some of the services offered by the state.  

I've been where she is.  I've been alone and having to raise two kids with handicaps.  But that's where you learn inner strength.  You dig down deep and do what's needed to be done.  I chuckle when I think back on the number of "meatless spaghetti" meals we had -- because that's all we had until payday.  I've often wondered where I got the ability to do what needs to be done.  In this world, everyone wants nice 'stuff' and they want it all - now.  There's no waiting or working hard for that something as a goal-- and there should be!  I guess I've always been a goal setter.



I think I learned some of my ways from country music. 
There's a new song out ... "The Only Way I Know" by Jason Aldean, it kinda sums it all up: 

You get tired, you don’t show it
Dig a little deeper when you think you can’t dig no more
That’s the only way I know

 That old red dirt the first thing you learn
You don’t get nothing that you don’t earn

Maybe there’s another path that will get you there a little bit faster,
But I’m sticking with the one inside of me.
  

Yeah  maybe there are faster ways of getting what you want -- but are they worth it??  I can look around at my home, my car, the things I own, and I know that I know that I know, there are no doubts I earned it all.  With hard work and patience.   The best things in life are the things you work for.  If it comes to you too easy, you forget to appreciate it -- and keep wanting more.