DAY 188 -- Failure To Communicate

In a movie of long ago, when I was much younger, there was a statement that our family often uses, "What we have here is a failure to communicate..."  Of course I cannot write it like it was said.  But we have had a failure to communicate. 

I posted a few days ago that my kids, my family was sort of indifferent on our mission goals.  I am a quiet man.  I don't spend much time on the phone. My future companion, Bonnie is always talking with our kids and she does the talking.  Besides I am going deaf, according to my kids.  I don't think so, even if I have selective hearing once in a while, through choice, or not?  Anyway, she talks to my kids all the time.

Since I was berated by a daughter in law yesterday, and since I followed up that berating with my wife, she told me, "Perhaps it would be good if you talked with your wife once in a while."  Another berating.  I could get feeling pretty bad about myself, two of those I love telling me I was wrong, and should be better.  I will strive not to feel too bad.

Well, Bonnie said that in her conversations with my kids, they are all very excited about our mission.  (Maybe they just want to get rid of us?)  (Especially Sam and Tessa, with whom we are living.)  Some read this blog, some do not.  I seldom, approaching never, get any comments, so I just figured that no one was reading this, and my kids were not so concerned about my mission. (Another berating, I should not assume no one reads these words if I do not get any comments?)  Lesson to be learned here:  NEVER JUST ASSUME, and talk to your wife to find out how things really are.  Avoid the "failure to communicate" syndrome. That should be another goal to work on, I guess.  (I am sure chalking up a long list of goals to accomplish by next June.) 

Note: I went to a book seller yesterday and gave him most all of my books that had been collecting dust in the storage unit.  He bought them all, giving me $550.  (He felt he could sell them all during this Christmas season.)  That will be a deposit into our mission fund.  It is a start on the $50,000 I am trying to earn by June for our mission.  There are other dreams he has using my written words, but those things will be reported on at at later date if they develop.  The $550 is a bit more than 1% of the ultimate goal.  It is a start with six months to go, right?  You have to start somewhere, right?