The Pumper's Wife

What kind of business are you in?  Do people make fun of you?  These days, there are jokes poking fun at just about everyone.  As you might guess, our business has a bit of a “joke bull’s eye” on it.  All sorts of things have been said about how we well know our…ahem…business. But you know what?  Sometimes you just have to laugh.  Yes, we want to be professional and we definitely want people to take us seriously, but we have a sense of humor too.  So, as this post hits most of you on a Monday…maybe these little pictures will make you smile! So if you're having a rough Monday...maybe these pictures will make you smile.  Or if nothing else, possibly appreciate your job a bit more than you did on Friday! Ha! Until next time friends!

Are you a business owner?  Do you have employees?  Then no doubt you understand how wonderful it is to have fabulous people who work with you.  We currently have the best team of guys and I pray they never leave us.  But it wasn’t always like this.  There was a time when it wasn’t like this…AT ALL. In fact, the reason I quit teaching was because there was a time when we had employees dropping like flies!  Towards the end of the school year 2014, we had an amazing guy driving for us.  We LOVED him.  He was wonderful, smart, had a great personality and was such a hard worker.  But he was blessed with a great opportunity to start up his own business with his dad…in Alabama.  I never knew I could feel so happy for someone and so sick to my stomach at the same time.  Just a couple of months later our other employee (who had been the previous owner of the company but wasn’t ready to quit working and retire…) got in a horrible car ...

With Christmas and New Years vacations, it’s been two weeks since our family has had a full week’s work.  How was it for you?  Ours could have been better.  They say  picture is worth a thousand words, so let me explain last week in just one picture… Yep…that was pretty much how every day felt. Some days I felt like it would have been better to stay in bed.  Of course, I usually feel this way after I’ve made my attempt, hindsight being 20/20 and all.  But here’s the thing, if we can just push through to the next 24 hour period, it usually all works out.  The thing about bad days, is that they usually only last a DAY.  (Even a bad week, in the grand scheme of things is just one week…) And I have found that this is true as well… That’s right!  I have a pretty good survival rate when it comes to bad days.  Not too shabby if I don’t say so myself.  I have found the best way to “survive” or “endure” a bad da...

I saw this meme over the weekend Isn’t that the truth?  Isn’t life really that simple?  I love technology and all the ways science has made our lives better.  But I feel like now that we have tools to make our lives easier, we’ve figured out ways to over-complicate what’s truly easy.  This meme made me think I could probably write some equally brilliant words… YOU KNOW YOU SHOULDN’T BUY IT WHEN YOU DON’T HAVE THE MONEY YOU KNOW YOU SHOULDN’T DO IT, IF IT IS STUPID YOU KNOW YOUR CAR NEEDS GAS WHEN THE LIGHT COMES ON YOU KNOW YOU SHOULD LOSE WEIGHT WHEN YOUR CLOTHES DON’T FIT YOU KNOW YOU SHOULD KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT WHEN YOU ARE ABOUT TO SAY SOMETHING STUPID YOU KNOW YOU SHOULD DRINK WATER WHEN YOU ARE THIRSTY YOU KNOW YOUR KID SHOULD BE WEARING PANTS WHEN HE ISN’T The list goes on and on…. Life really is simple.  Our decisions…check that, our POOR decisions is what complicates it. KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID is truly a brilliant p...

Life gives us TONS of frustrations, right?  We start learning about frustrations at an early age with things like: homework, flat tire on a bike, rained out baseball game, snow day that should have been, spilled milk, you know the stressful list.  Then we get a little older and those frustrations become a bit bigger:  broke down car, sick kid, washing machine on the fritz, etc.  Oh, just writing these things down makes my stomach upset!! So what do we do about these frustrations?  We work through them.  We deal with them.  We wish they wouldn’t ever happen again.  But here’s the thing…they teach us.  We become better for them.  Frustrations make us appreciate when things go good.  If not for frustrations, everything would be hunky-dory all the time and we’d never really appreciate how wonderful life is!! I know personally, being the wife of a septic pumper this means calls when I don’t want to be called or a working husband...

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas (break)… Everywhere you go…there are dishes left out from snacks Toys cluttering up walking paths And Mommys fighting kids on sugar over load!! This may or may not be your current home condition.  I have to admit there is a reason those words popped into my head as I started writing this post…they rang a little true for me!!  Now that I am a home-based business mom, conducting business as normal while the kids are home on break can make Christmas a little more interesting!  If the phone rings, I must answer in my normal business tone despite the cat running for it’s life from the latest hunting game that just ensued upstairs, or the misplaced Lego piece that I didn’t see as I walked around the office.  (Seriously, I swear those tiny little things are the MOST painful toys when stepped upon…) So, this week will be an interesting one.  And it’s not like my boys don’t understand our home business s...

It’s that time of year that comes with some wonderful cinema favorites!  I don’t know about you and your family but we have several Christmas movies we like to watch… The Christmas Story Miracle on 34 th Street Elf Charlie Brown Christmas Frosty The Snowman White Christmas A Christmas Carol We love all of these listed above, but my all time favorite Christmas movie is “It’s a Wonderful Life” – in my opinion it just doesn’t get any better than that movie.  And it’s not just because of some of the great lines… “You look like the kind of angel I’d get” “Ah, youth is wasted on the wrong people” “I’ve been saving this money for a divorce if I ever got a husband” CLARENCE: No, we don’t use money in heaven GEORGE: Well, it comes in real handy down here, bud! Yes, the lines are great, but more importantly is the message it sends.  We don’t often see characters like George Bailey anymore.  Those types of selfless people truly ar...