Carol and I got up this morning and had a couple of cups of coffee at home. We decided it was a good day to make the 18 mile drive to Rushville for a quick trip to the grocery store. As long as we were going why not stop at Roger’s Bakery and have a doughnut. We knew our granddaughter Audrey was working and it would be an opportunity to visit her for a little while. It was early and pretty quiet in the dining room. A few folks stopped in to get orders but no one else was sitting at the tables.
You never know what you children or grandchildren are going to be like when they grow up. There have been bumps in the road of life. I think every family has them. Things you would go back and change if you could. Choices you made or they made at a fork in the road that could have resulted in different outcomes. The truth is that all those choices have put us where we are now. The options we didn’t choose. The choices we avoided may not have put us in a better place. Learn from the past but always look forward to the future. Watching Audrey today deal with customers and coworkers gave me a moment to pause and think. She is a kind, thoughtful, polite, intelligent young lady. So are her sisters Johnnie and Vannessa. Somehow with all the mistakes we made as parents and grandparents we managed to have children and granddaughters who make us proud of who they are every day. It is reassuring to see them as confident, self assured and morally grounded adults. If I have any advice for them it would be this.
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