I was vacuuming this morning before work, getting ready for my family to arrive tonight for the weekend. I didn’t have time – I needed to get my breakfast and situate at my desk for the day, but…cat hair. Anyway, I was vacuuming this morning before work. There was glaring evidence that I really should also clean the wood floors, but, eh. It’s family – they won’t care.

I got to the kitchen and was maneuvering around chairs and rugs, and I almost didn’t notice, because it has been there so long. I purchased a rug for my Dad’s new apartment in June, and it was shipped around this long cardboard tube. You don’t just throw away a 5 foot long cardboard tube! That might come in handy sometime!

So, it has been propped up against the wall in the kitchen since June.

I am grateful for things that might come in handy sometime, because they might come in handy sometime.

I am grateful for memories of talking to grandchildren on the other end of cardboard tubes, because I am pretty sure that is the only thing those cardboard tubes are good for – that, and bonking each other on the head.

I am grateful for a vacuum cleaner and the ability and desire to push one.

And I am grateful for family that doesn’t care!

However, if they DO care about my less than clean wood floors…where’s that cardboard tube that will come in handy, ’cause someone’s about to get bonked.