~ The Turkey, The Rooster, and the Colonel with cousins and Great- Grandma & Great-Grandpa ~
Our morning drive today was spent with the discussion of "Which comes first...work or play?"
Well, today was the Turkey's turn to have some issues regarding when assignments are due!!! Mother Hen learned of some vocab cards that were due today, last night! The problem was that we did not have the vocab book to complete the assignment...another OOPS!!! This led to the Turkey's slight meltdown of
**I don't know why I only have 1 week to do these cards...
**Why do we have to have homework anyway?
**Why do we have to go to school?
**I never have ANY free time.
We have these discussions periodically, and I remind him of
**the 2 hours he played gamecube on Sat
**2 hours of baseball practice
**1 hour of playing with the baby goats
**1 hour of jumping on the trampoline
**etc.
He began to calm down and the Lord put an awesome teaching moment in front of us! We talked about how responsiblities must be a priority!!
I reminded them that it doesn't matter what age you are, you still have responsibilites that must be taken care of...before the fun stuff gets to happen!
This led to "what would happen if Daddy didn't complete his jobs on time? What would happen if Mommy didn't have everything ready for the JBF sale? They were reminded how Grammie & Pops didn't get to come to the previous basketball games because they were taking care of responsiblites. We then talked about Great-Grandma and her responsibilites.
Then, the young birds saw the greatest comparison ever!
What about Great-Grandpa? Does he have any responsiblites, now? They began to discuss how he has farmed for 65 years, but now his mind is not thinking very clearly and he doesn't have any more work that has to be done. I asked them if they could think of anyone else that doesn't have any responsiblities and the Rooster said, "P.K." (P.K. is our 26 year old, male friend who has been in a coma for 6 weeks due to a brain trauma from a car accident) I asked him why and they replied, "because he's still asleep".
WOW!!! I believe the light came on for 3 young boys. A comparison of a 26 year old young man & an 86 year old farmer revealed to us that...
while we are able...
work comes before play.
5 comments:
What a fabulous Life Lesson to be learned...
Wow that was awesome! My grandsons are such thinkers, & their mom is such a great mother!!
love, Love, LOVE, Looooovvee the new banner/header/whatever/thingy!
FEBRUARY 26th!! F.e.b.r.u.a.r.y. My finger is so tired of clicking to check baaaccckk. PLEASE post something. Mud. FFA. Mud. Cows. Mud. Dirty Boy(s). Mud. Anything...
Puhleezzzze.
I wouldn't be doing all this whingin' if I wasn't with you when a zillion bloggable moments didn't happen evry minute of every day at the Coop! In fact, how about Sissy Poop?
Is that enough whinin' for ya?
Mother Hen I found your blog. I laughed and laughed and laughed. I miss seeing the boys, but this did remind me of how they are. Great names for them. Very cute blog.
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