Never enough

There are two different types of people in the world...

Those who view the same things in life two different ways-

There are never enough hours in the day.

Never enough time.

Never enough of one thing or another. 

It's good with the bad. 

When my kids are all home it seems like there is never enough time. And time flies by. 

When Monday mornings roll around it seems like there is never enough weekend and where did Saturday and Sunday go?

And there is a fine line between never enough and NEVER enough.

We all know someone who views everything in life that it is NEVER enough. Never enough rain, never enough one thing or another, it's never good enough or some kind of enough...negative, negative, negative. Life is never good enough. Nothing is ever good enough.

I'm married to a NEVER enough person. An inch of rain is never enough or too much-who cares, it's rain. It's never just plain nice to have rain. What ever we have it is never good enough or some kind enough from our house to vehicles to this that and the next thing...it's sad and must be really frustrating to view the world like this. Every day things are never good enough. It's not sunny enough or too hot or too sunny or something or another. I've tried really, really hard not to "drink the Kool-Aid" over the years and I know I have on occasion.  I've especially learned not to listen or tune it out. But I will admit that it is disheartening and depressing to always hear it's never whatever. 

I try to view life as never enough from the perspective of how lucky and blessed I am. As a mom  it is never enough time with my kids or grandkids. It is never enough to have beautiful falls days. Or to not waste my time worrying about weather unless it is severe or I have a loved one traveling in the snow, then it's enough! 

It is never enough to almost reach my daily intake of water, but I'm not perfect, I forget and I'll try to do better tomorrow. 

I had a mom who was a great cook but living on a farm five miles outside of town we didn't just run to town to get ingredients for a recipe,  my mom must have planned a lot, or was just that good at cooking on the fly! And she would often make substitutions in a recipe that I don't think dad or us kids noticed! Except one time! Mom made tuna noodle casserole, which I loved. I'm pretty sure it was a Friday during lent. And I'm pretty sure someone in the house had wiped out the potato chips. The recipe called for potato chips on the bottom and top of the recipe. My mom, always being the creative person she is, used Doritos instead! Well neither my dad and brother noticed and thought everything tasted fine. And to be honest she may have been on to something new! But I could tell something wasn't right and the first anticipated bite was not what I was expecting. It was not what mom's tuna noodle casserole was supposed to taste like! Long story short I'm pretty sure I was one of those NEVER enough people that day! I think I ate around the Doritos after I protested about my mom's recipe change. If it bothered her, she never let on. I now totally understand where she was coming from, you punt or change what you need to in a recipe or life! The Dorito tuna noodle casserole became a running joke between mom and I! I hope she wasn't hurt or offended by my less that kind, I'm sure, comments, especially since the two other people at the table didn't notice and ate it! Sorry mom. 

If there were any potato chips left in the house that day, I'm sure it wasn't enough...probably the story of my mom's life when she had kids at home. I know it was when I had kids at home. All I asked was that they just write it on the grocery list if they ate the last of something. As a mom you can never have enough food or milk or snacks in the house! But no one at that tuna noodle casserole table or in my house growing up or my house ever went without a food because there wasn't enough food. 

As negative as never enough sounds I prefer to look at it in a positive light. Never enough hours in a day when I'm with friends and family. Never enough time when it comes to life and all I want and hope to do, but I know I'll try. 

Today is a rainy day, thank goodness because we need the rain, but regardless if we get 1/10 or and 1.5" of rain, it is enough, it is what God intended and he is in control. 

Today will be enough, enough to get done what I want, hope, need to and to spend time with people or doing things that I'm supposed to be doing. It is enough.