Mamma Dramma
Overcoming An Ungrateful Heart
You would think by now I would have learned to stay away from the stores with truck load of kids, but a family has to eat, right?
It was one of those days when we had been stuck in the house hibernating from the cold for what seemed like months. We hadn't been grocery shopping in weeks. We had to get out of the house.
Beans And Cornbread
I'm not quite sure how it got started, but in our family we eat beans on New Years day.
I guess they figured if you start off on the first day of the year having beans then you can't go anywhere but up! Depending on where you are from, you may be eating cabbage or black-eyed peas in an effort to secure your good fortunes this upcoming year.
Honk Your Horn For Jesus!
Have you ever been in one of those situations where you just want to disappear?
Like the other day when Granny and Mamma were getting ready to go to town and the old car they were driving decided to honk and flash its lights randomly. I know we've all been there before but this time it was for real. Just when they thought it was safe enough to leave the house for Granny's appointment, that ole Buick started honking again. This time it wouldn't stop!
Giving Thanks In ALL Seasons
I was grocery trained by the very best, my Granny Dot, a proud survivor of the Great Depression.
Every week my brother, cousins and I followed in her footsteps or stayed in the car playing eye-spy while she hit every grocery chain in town! You'd think I would have learned my lesson, but I do the very same thing! It's usually around grocery store number two when my son turns from quiet follower to Indiana Jones on his last crusade. While he is fighting battles from atop his pretend train, I fill up my cart.
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There's just no hiding!
There are some things I'd rather just keep to myself. This is an impossible feat given the fact that all three of my children are broadcasters.
Just ask them a question about me. I can’t tell you how many times they have thrown me under the bus. They are my backseat private eyes, always waiting for me to give them their latest supper time news story.
Passing On A Good Story- Priceless!
I truly enjoyed the time my kids and I got to spend back home this summer. I take them as much as the Lord allows because I want them to know who they are, where their roots came from and ensure they develop memorable relationships.
Watching my uncle and cousin feed their catfish was so much fun. My kids were leaning over the side, running back and forth looking at the water in amazement as the fish would surface to devour the food. They were having the time of their lives. It certainly wasn't as fun for my aunt. Some things never change. She was worried and jumpy the whole time, convinced that at any second one of the kids was going to fall off the dock. Every time one of them moved an arm she 'took to squealing'. "Now Tanie, she's going fall in, hold her by the shirt!" I had to laugh and tell my kids the story because it wasn't so many years ago that her kids and I were the ones standing on the dock fishing and she was doing the same thing to us.
