Showing Up

The college kid she hired and paid didn't show up again.

I was walking by my neighbor's yard this week, and she was struggling to landscape it with a hurt foot. Her mom was coming to visit, and she wanted to clean it up. She told me she couldn't get anyone to take the job.

The college kid she had already paid told her after starting, "I'm never doing this again - it's too hard!" - then didn't come back.

I told her my son is a hard worker and has been very interested in making some money for the things he wants (we buy toys for Christmas and birthdays).

Daddy helped him, but he went to her house every day after school for 3 days and worked on her yard.

He's seven years old.

She paid him $140, and we are investing $100 of it for him. We make a lot of mistakes, but this is how we aim to do life: hard work and investing in our future. Doing the things other people don't want to do.