As I cook and clean, day in, day out this month I have had plenty of time to think as I fulfill the duties of the day. I have thought, if I were at home, at my parent’s house, would I be doing this? The fact of the matter is that I LOVE my family but I can distinctly remember numerous times when I would come home to visit while in college and mom would say dishes need to be done. Or some other various chore. I would walk in the house and see things that need to be done but I wouldn’t do them.
I can easily remember my response when my mother would say “someone come do the dishes please.” My response was always, “Go ahead Tanner, I don’t live here anymore.” I stuck firm to that answer on many occasions but as I do this work around a stranger’s house, I have really been thinking about how sometimes it is easier to serve a stranger then people we are completely familiar with. Why is that?
I love my family so very much and have built strong relationships with them so shouldn’t it be easy to serve them? I think sometimes I forget that helping out with just a few little things around my parent’s house will alleviate some of their daily tasks and can help make everyone’s day run a little smoother.
So here’s to you mom and dad. For all your hard work you put in on a DAILY basis to cater to our lives when you don’t have to or maybe don’t want to. The sacrifices that you make to ensure that we are taken care of and we are happy. Here’s to you for loving us through the selfishness that kids sometimes have, here’s to you for loving us through it all. I love you both very much and I would never have asked for different parents, you are my perfect unconditional loving parents and I will always be grateful for you being in my life.
LOVE!
