What we do When we Grow Up!

 Hello and happy Tuesday to all.  Hope this finds you all well today.

It is a lovely morning here - after a rainy and stormy day! Yesterday afternoon it started to rain, then storm and it came down hard and for quite a while.  The neighbor to the west had a backyard lake - one a couple to the east did as well - I didn't!  Not sure why this time, but it is just soggy and no lake.  YAY! 

More rain coming back in later today and tonight (and storms).

Haven't had to water a thing I planted yet!

Remember as a youngster saying, "when I grow up I want to be...."?  

Well, somedays I still wonder what I want to be when 'I grow up'.   How about you? 

As a child, I said I was going to be a teacher.  Then in high school, I took my college prep classes and did a semester 'student teaching' at my old grade school.  I worked with 3rd graders and with 4th graders.  That was fun.

In college, I got more interested into wanting to teach special education or work in social services helping kiddos.  Got to do a hands-on service with a social agency for children then, and it just broke my heart.  I would come home and cry and cry.

Then life happened, and college became part time, as I needed to work to help pay mortgage and bills, and then I just stopped in my junior year.

I got into accounting and did that in some form for the remainder of my working years (funny, as I hated math in school).

Became a 'sort of' care giver and stayed home with hubs when he became disabled.  I have been home since.  Learning, doing and caring.

Now I stop and think - am I doing what I am supposed to be doing?  Am I making a difference?  Is there a big plan for me?

Do you ever wonder things like that?

I know I am not done growing up - so I wonder what I will be when I do grow up!!!

I guess in a way, I teach in a form, by having the blog.  I help give the opportunity to myself and others to pass on useful information that others can use to maybe make their lives better.

I try to be a good family member and help those in need.  I try to be a good neighbor and friend.

I try to just be a good servant of God.

I hope that is enough.

I see pictures taken of earth from outer space and it is beautiful, but it is so small compared to the unending vastness out there.  We are a part of that little ball.  Once you are on this planet, we are but a grain of sand.  There is so much out there in the unending space and so many on this earth.  I am presuming we all have a purpose (?).  Somedays watching the news, I have to wonder what that purpose may be for some, surely evil and meanness can't be a purpose.  OR maybe it is there to help us realize what NOT to do.  I don't know.  I doubt anyone knows.

I do know that we all have a bright light go out at some point in our lives, a light that gets extinguished.  It may be from death or from illness or from losses of all sorts - but we have found a way to get back to a light and see some brightness again.  We go on, and hopefully the time of darkness helps us grow, and maybe we can help others to see a light again.

So have you figured out what you want to be when you grow up?  Have you always followed your dreams or ideals?  Did things change drastically at some point?  I would love to hear.

I guess I will stick with teacher!

I just know that when my days are done - I "hope" someone can say "she did good".  

That would be a good legacy.

Have a beautiful and special day.

Make it a good one.