Poor Mouthin'

I was “poor mouthin” with a friend of mine, who’s also lived through some tough times. And for a moment we got on the tangent of how poor we had to eat. You know how it is, it’s close to the end of the month and you’re looking in the pantry and getting pretty creative. I can laugh about it now, but there was a time when it nearly made me cry. Especially when you got four little mouths to feed. But apparently they made it through unscathed, cause now they are some of the cheapest people I know. (That’s a joke if your reading this, Jeez.)

Anyway, I was eating some cold pork n beans for supper, cause my bride and youngest were having turkey sloppy joes. There wasn’t much bread left and I wasn’t in the mood to see if there was any bread left in Alamo. So I grabbed the beans out of the pantry and pretended I was back on a job site in the middle of nowhere. I don’t know, I guess I grew up the wrong way, but we always looked at hard times with a bit of stubbornness and humor. A lot of folks today when they go through a bad spell they want to get mad and turn to jealousy and hatred. I know all about that, cause for a long time I found myself doing the same thing.
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I ain’t saying you just got to live with your given situation. I mean, you know my story I was totally unhealthy and practically ringing heaven’s doorbell. But I made up my mind to do something about it. Now several years later I’m 130 lbs. lighter, off my blood pressure meds, my A1C is 5.3, and with my last surgery my AFib has stopped. Now I still plenty of other problems to work on, like my attitude and frame of mind. But with enough patience and a little bit of humor, I’m pretty much enjoying this journey. The question now is, what are you doing to improve yours?