24/11/2024
I’ve recently looked after my dad here providing respite care for 3 weeks. He buys lottery tickets, sadly the euro millions weren’t ours this time. He asked me yesterday on the phone if I’d gone and bought another ticket for the kids with the money he left. ‘No’ was the answer (given that having the time to go to the toilet seems a privilege at the moment, that’s not surprising)!
So the conversation went as follows:
Me ~ ‘I’ll go get one this week Dad, then perhaps I won’t have to bundle 120 bunches of pine on my knees outside in the cold’
Dad ~ ‘I suspect you’d still be doing that anyway’.
And he’s right. I’d still do it, because I truly love what I do. Don’t get me wrong, the volume and pressure would surely change but I feel very lucky that I’d choose this passion again. How many others would say the same? Very grateful and very thankful to have found my love and path in life.
It wasn’t always like this and it’s never too late to change. It’s a lot of hard work, determination, tenacity and drive but I wouldn’t change it.
Happy Sunday all - and thank you SO much for all your Christmas orders so far (it’s keeping me outside on my hands and knees in the cold nicely)! 🤍
