work ethic......

ok, so after work, we arrived home to find that ecw had driven the car rather than the truck......so i did what one does when one finds an empty truck......i went to the garden center and bought a load of mulch........and the term meanmamma resounded amongst my kin.....because when my daughter asked could she go play with the neighbor girl, i said no.......because we have work to do........when mamma....when can i play?.......when the truck is empty....that's when..........well, the neighbor girl actually came over and started helping us........and actually said the following words, within earshot of my child......'i really like to do mulch,.....i like the feel of it.....i like to work, and feel that i have finished something......' gentle readers.....this child is 9. and a child after my own heart.......whenever my own child whined about wanting to play.....our little neighbor girl replied that there would be time to play when the work was done....................whoa..........clarification.....this conversation took place in my mother's yard.....we start there....because it is at the top of the hill, and because it is easier to get her gardening chores over early.......than to listen to the questions regarding why her gardening chores are not yet done..........so we emptied an entire truckload of mulch, and did not begin to finish her mulching needs.......i did try, truth be told, to finish the job without her knowing we were there........it is so much easier that way.......to focus on the job at hand.....when my mother is present she starts to think about things the way they could be if we had 1)unlimited funds 2)unlimited labor 3) unlimited time........and i cannot feel that special zing of completion when so many future projects hang in the balance.........as luck would have it, the neighbor girl left at precisely 4:30 to go home so she could eat and make it to her 5:00 dog training class........she apologized to cayle that she could not possibly 'play' until maybe friday, because of her commitments........but hey, she was mighty helpful while she was with us......and i can only hope that her unusual brand of work ethic rubs off on my child............