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08-09-2012, 04:46 AM
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I have my Mom's little diary she kept for a couple of years when I was little. No electricity, no running water, 16 miles from the nearest town for any shopping...and 6 of us kids from 0-15! She had a big garden and canned enough in the summer to get through the winter. The cream check bought what staples the family needed. I still remember when we got electricity and running water in the house. A very hard life but I never heard her complain. She was just focused on getting the work done.
I like your summary questions, QNSue. I think it goes even deeper than happiness to contentment. To me that's a emotion that can carry a person a lot longer and farther than happiness.
I like your summary questions, QNSue. I think it goes even deeper than happiness to contentment. To me that's a emotion that can carry a person a lot longer and farther than happiness.
08-09-2012, 10:40 AM
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Yes, gardnerGal, Elise was a contented cow. I think one has to realize when happiness is... and why it is. If you are constantly busy, you are happy...or most people are. Aunt Mabel always said 'idle child is in the hands of the devil'...
and it seems so many are expecting so much for doing nothing today and they are not happy with what they get. Some never learn the work ethics, but continue to lie and steal what others have earned. Lack moral fiber.
People who have goals and hobbies, like quilting and doing whole projects, realizing goals and finished worthwhile projects feel good about it and themselves. Yes, I remember days without running water and barely remember electricity coming in the home...radio that ran on tubes...TV coming in the 50s...not our house until late 50s early 60s. We grew a big garden, butchered 2 steers and 4 hogs every year...sold cream, and eggs twice a week for the household cash. Gram canned 300 quarts of beans, and same amount of tomatoes every year. Canned much of the meat, and butchered about 200-300 chickens every year. Carried in water and carried out water for baths, wash day and dish washing...and ran down the path for the toilet. Old dresses made rags, rag rugs. and cleaning cloths, and aprons. Tooth picks were strands of Spaghetti stuck into cakes when carried to family reunion picnics with plastic over them.
and it seems so many are expecting so much for doing nothing today and they are not happy with what they get. Some never learn the work ethics, but continue to lie and steal what others have earned. Lack moral fiber.
People who have goals and hobbies, like quilting and doing whole projects, realizing goals and finished worthwhile projects feel good about it and themselves. Yes, I remember days without running water and barely remember electricity coming in the home...radio that ran on tubes...TV coming in the 50s...not our house until late 50s early 60s. We grew a big garden, butchered 2 steers and 4 hogs every year...sold cream, and eggs twice a week for the household cash. Gram canned 300 quarts of beans, and same amount of tomatoes every year. Canned much of the meat, and butchered about 200-300 chickens every year. Carried in water and carried out water for baths, wash day and dish washing...and ran down the path for the toilet. Old dresses made rags, rag rugs. and cleaning cloths, and aprons. Tooth picks were strands of Spaghetti stuck into cakes when carried to family reunion picnics with plastic over them.
08-09-2012, 10:49 AM
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One day reacently I sighed again & Dh said "I'm sorry that you are not happy." I said that just because I'm sad doesn't mean that I don't like my life. Contentment is a decision, (just like love.) There are goin' ta be sad times but it is how ya face 'em that defines how content ya are & eventually how happy ya are.
08-09-2012, 01:06 PM
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Welcome mat is out for FWS or PC to come by and visit a while...seems that we all have a lot in common and a lot of common sense!! Would it be safe for our dh if we got started telling stories to one another?? lol!!!!
08-09-2012, 08:35 PM
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Reading these lasts posts pauses me to sigh--a sigh of friendship and gratefulness that I have gotten to "know" such caring people on the trail.
Enjoyed a great simple meal with DB and wife as well as several of our own kids and grands. Life is good.
Enjoyed a great simple meal with DB and wife as well as several of our own kids and grands. Life is good.
08-10-2012, 04:48 AM
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OkSewGlad....I was wondering if you would sneak away from the festivities to check in on us! It's so nice you have this special time with your family. Make some good memories with them to carry in their hearts.
08-10-2012, 09:21 AM
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SIGH.... I have been MIA and not sewing a thing!!! all of the FUN summer stuff keeping me so busy...
QNSue, your logic makes so much sense to me.
I think people are not raising their children the way that USED to be acceptable. my BIL grew up in strawberry country CA and his father taught him to steer the tractor when he was 3 yrs old!!! BIL would drive the tractor straight to the end of the field and then to stand on the clutch until his father would come over and make the turn... then little BIL would drive it back to the other end... when he was older when the fruit was in season, they would load the flatbed truck every morning before school, and when they got home from school they would pick until it was to dark to see...
life has changed....
when I was a girl of 5, I was responsible to babysit my two younger sisters one of which was a newborn! for two hours twice a day! while my mother milked the goats.... and we were NOT to get into any mischief while she was out either!!! and you know.... we never did get into trouble...
it is SUCH a different life....
QNSue, your logic makes so much sense to me.
I think people are not raising their children the way that USED to be acceptable. my BIL grew up in strawberry country CA and his father taught him to steer the tractor when he was 3 yrs old!!! BIL would drive the tractor straight to the end of the field and then to stand on the clutch until his father would come over and make the turn... then little BIL would drive it back to the other end... when he was older when the fruit was in season, they would load the flatbed truck every morning before school, and when they got home from school they would pick until it was to dark to see...
life has changed....
when I was a girl of 5, I was responsible to babysit my two younger sisters one of which was a newborn! for two hours twice a day! while my mother milked the goats.... and we were NOT to get into any mischief while she was out either!!! and you know.... we never did get into trouble...
it is SUCH a different life....
08-10-2012, 09:52 AM
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I do believe that children need much more responsibility. If they are taught ta be responsible, they don't git into as much trouble. My whole family thought I was way too tough on my kids but they are the strongest, & most reliable in the family. Even the 19 yr old (my late in life baby) is known around town for how well he mows lawns & what a hard worker he is. He is payin' for his own college w/ lawn mowin' money. (That's a lot o' lawns!)
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