All About Bees....

Today I took my kids to see "The Bee Movie". During the first 5 minutes I heard a quote. Ethan actually was the one that remembered it and repeated it to me on the way home. It was during a "bee" graduation ceremony mentioned by the speaker. "You've worked your whole lives to finally get to the point where you'll work your whole lives". This struck a chord with me. I thought about it throughout the entire movie. The movie is about a bee that discovers he doesn't want to just work the same job day after day the rest of his life. He leaves the hive, meets a human, becomes friends with her, and has a few adventures. He discovers that honey is sold by humans. He finds where the honey bees are kept and decides it is completely unjust so sues the humans. The bees win and they no longer have need to work as much as they once did. They have enough honey to live on for a while so the bees basically take a break. Blah, blah, blah.......everything dies because without the simple jobs of bees everything is screwed up. Moral of the story: every job is important, even if it's little and seems unimportant. This kind of sums up my life in it's current phase. I do the exact same job day after day after day. It often seems unimportant. Laundry, dishes, toilets, diapers, feeding, bathing, dressing, cooking, homework, bedtime. Start over. And over. And over again. Sometimes it just feels like everything I do is ridiculously mundane. But, who would do it if I didn't? This movie made me feel like all the little things I do everyday add up to one great thing in the end. (Hopefully it ends up with productive, healthy, well-balanced adults.) Someone the other day asked me if I worked. The exact way it was phrased was "Oh, so you don't work then?" Ya buddy, spend a day in my shoes before you judge who works and who doesn't. My work might not seem important, but it is. It is.