By Staff
Last week I started a column about snow and how people may have wished for it, but then wished it would stop. I had my column headline done: Be careful what you wish for.
I really wished for a snow day.
Well, I got my snow days, but not due to the snow. I ended up with a sinus infection, pain, misery and lots of sleep.
I knew when four hours had passed, then I would go into a coughing fit and need more cough syrup and a pill to ease the pounding in my head.
Very often in life I think we wish for something, but when it comes it isn't exactly what we really wanted in the first place.
You might wish you had a big house.
When I lived in St. Louis, before house values went up many years ago, I had a house with four bathrooms and three fireplaces. To say it was big would be an understatement.
Needless to say, it took forever to clean. The yard took extra time to mow, the leaves never were completely cleared from the lawn and snow shoveling was also a chore.
Yes, that was another year we were dumped on with ice and snow.
In St. Louis they didn't know how to handle a little snowfall, let alone a blizzard.
Everything stops. No one goes to work and the city comes to a stop. To someone from Chicago, it seems really strange.
I came to Michigan the following January and it was the famous 1978 storm.
Every weekend for many weeks we were stuck home, unable to go to church.
Even though this week I am reminded about that year when we were buried under the white stuff, I also know it is February and this will end soon.
The groundhog also said it will be an early spring.
When you are home sick you think it will be great, you will be able to get stuff done. Wrong. I was too sick to do much more than move from my chair back to my bed.
Instead of getting ahead I am behind even more than I was.
You might wish for summer, to graduate or some other special day. When you want the days to fly by, they just might and you will wake up and find you are much older than you thought.
You might wish for your kids to be grown.
I constantly tell people, enjoy them now, before you know it they will be gone.
The time you have with your children is really short. Play with them. Read to them.
I was told to write down the funny things they said, because you won't remember them.
You won't – trust me.
You might wish for more money.
It will never be enough. If you have more, you will spend more and the bills will continue to pile up. We just pull out our plastic cards and face the bills later, instead of budgeting and spending only what we can.