The automatic water on our refrigerator no longer works. It has not worked for awhile, but we seemed to muddle along for awhile expecting it to magically fix itself. However, we finally had to address the situation when we had company and no ice.
Finally, after weeks of whining about the ice maker, I got the brilliant idea to go buy some ice cube trays. My husband shut off the water as it was leaking and creating havoc not only with the ice, but the entire freezer. Once again we muddled along with three ice cube trays. Of course, our kids have grown up with everything automatic so once the ice cube trays were empty, they became confused and befuddled. I gently reminded them that they had to fill them up with water and put them in the freezer. We are still working on that.
I finally had the brilliant idea to fill up the ice machine with ice cubes from the trays each morning and evening. Voila! We finally had a solution that everybody could live with. The system actually works very well with relatively little effort.
This whole quandary probably seems very silly to the generations raised up through the seventies. However, in the past twenty years we have been making things so easy for ourselves and our children, we lose some common sense. The sad thing is that most people think that they cannot live without these modern conveniences and forget that there was a time when we did everything ourselves.
I see that all four of my children are missing the small tasks in life that used to be done by the children in the house. Since most things are done for them, they are constantly bored, as no one can play all the time. In a way, I welcome the ice machine breaking and I am not in any hurry to fix it. It is one small step for self-reliance. Now that my eyes have been opened by such a small thing I can maybe begin to address this whole boredom issue...laundry, mowing, weeding. The kids are in for a wonderful summer!
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