So Yesterday Mom and I spent most of the day fussing. It isn’t anything terrible but it is on me … Kinda … Okay you all are going to say it is me and in the bottom of my heart I kind of know it is me but I don’t want it to be me so I am not wanting to admit it is me … Does any of that make sense??
You see, there are things on the farm that are fun to do and there are things on the farm that need to be done. The two don’t always go hand in hand. Roping on the finished horses is fun but doing the ground work and reining to get to that point is not. And I haven’t been working with Precious or Caballo like I should have because Precious is in the reining stage and Caballo is still on his ground work. To make a long story short Mom was in the arena yesterday with me making me do what NEEDED to be done. All the while I wanted to do what I think is Fun.
I am sure you are getting the picture about the fussing. Well, finally I told Mom that I couldn’t be like her and enjoy everything I do. I wasn’t exactly nice about it but that is the summery of what I said. At this point Mom got a bit upset. She asked If I really though she liked doing everything she does? I told her “Well, Yes” She is always humming and happy no matter what she is doing so she must but having fun.
Then she looked at me (with daggers in her eyes) and launched in to this whole so you think I like Cleaning toilets? She said things like how the aroma of cleaning up the Dog Accidents was so wonderful. And how the smell of my socks in the dirty laundry just made her Giddy. Okay, so I hadn’t thought that whole thing out before I opened my mouth … But I told her “Well, you always seem like you like everything you do.” She looked at me and said “That is because I CHOOSE to be positive in every thing I do, Not because I like every thing I do.” I saw her point but I didn’t like it and I wasn’t about to admit it to her. So she then went on with a lecture to tell me that if she didn’t like doing certain things she has a choice. She can complain and do it anyway because she knew if she didn’t Dad and I wouldn’t or she could hum a little tune and get the job done and move on.
After that I went in my room and stayed away from Mom. I was just tired of hearing it. And nothing she said Made me WANT to do the things that NEEDED to be done anyway. I got my Laundry put up though so that was a good thing … LOL
Later when I went to rope at my friend’s house, Mom got my friend to teasing me. You see my friend is the kind of kid who doesn’t know when to stop and he gets a bit irritating sometimes because of it. Most people don’t like him because of it but I just accept that he is that way and go on. If I don’t feel like dealing with him that day I don’t. Anyway, I went to rope because I just couldn’t get things going my way in my roping. So I thought if I practiced more it would help. So I pushed myself to go to my friends even though I wasn’t in the mood for him after Mom and I had our fussing. Well, my friend asked Mom what got under my saddle and Mom told him. And just like he always does he started to tease me about it and he took it to far.
By the time I was done roping, I had had enough and was ready to go home. When I got in the truck Mom asked if I was okay. I told her that I was fine but I was just tired of the teasing. She asked why I didn’t just stop roping earlier and we could have left. I told her “because I needed the practice.” She then asked …. “So, you just grinned and bared it because you NEEDED to practice but really you didn’t WANT to do it????” AAUUGGGHHHHH ….. Sometimes I hate the way Mom proves she is right. We drove home in silence, I did chores and went to bed!
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