A Gift that Meets Our Need Is The Very Best

  “Oh. It’s only clothes. “I had an idea when I was younger that all Christmas presents should be something you don’t need. I think others helped me in forming this idea.
Gradually my idea of the perfect present has changed.
Others helped me change my ideal.
It occurred to me last week that Jesus was the perfect [...]

Chutney is Life?

    Watching all the turmoil around me, sometimes my attitude seems to be a bit fluffy. Maybe some of that is on purpose.  I try to maintain a certain amount of denial so that the seriousness of it all doesn’t weigh on me too heavily. I try to  let God carry the heavy load  in [...]

Summer Calls and Kids Help It

  Summer is at midpoint and I notice myself and people around me alternating between a panic and plodding moes. We like a collective ant colony movealong the path of seasonal tasks and pleasure. Produce and blossoms come in waves and I pick and pack away. The waves and the summer sun beckon and I [...]

Father,Daddy,Papa,Dad,Pop Whatever You Call Him Treat Him

  Father’s Day approaches and men and women the world over are wondering what to do about it?
  Men don’t know what they want.
  Women respond by trying to give them what they want them to want or what they think they might want.
  Why don’t we just ask them what would be fun for [...]

Mothering in Retrospect

It’s interesting being the mother of older children. My roll has changed from one who made things ok, made things happen, knew (supposedly) all the answers, and gave up my nights, my comfort ( wet sandy snuggles at the beach for instance and bouquets of flowers I was allergic to), my preferences, my beauty( [...]

Silent apologies to Plants

  I find myself feeling sorry for the plants as we till our garden spot. I apologize inwardly ( I’m sorry to nip you in the bud this way) to the about to bloom forget me nots and the rambling shoots of the raspberry bushes ( sorry but this is really not good for you [...]

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Now that it’s spring I am looking forward to some day like this one when I am able to get out there on the lake and catch a nice mess of fish. Memories of fishing with my Daddy and my hubby and my kids are some of my best, happiest memories!

One Hand for Sorrow Another for Joy

 
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 It’s still spring!! I marvel at that because of our late snowstorms which made me wonder if I was in “The Long Winter”. I’ve often read Laura Ingalls Wilder’s “Long Winter” but had no burning desire to experience it. I have to admit the first late flurry of snow after I came home from a [...]

Ask Mom

“Did you listen this time? You are so annoying…”
  “It must be so scary to be pregnant with triplets.” (Heard by Mom as question. Please tell me about birth and pregnancy.)
  Well it can be. I wondered every time if I was pregnant with twins. I watched four friends carry and give birth to twins [...]

Hello world!

Welcome to Wouldn’tchaknow it!
  The sun is shining and I am starting anew with this my old column from my newpapering days!
  I’ve been considering it for a year or more and today with #6 and #5 having danced out the door excitedly to go retreating and rallying with several thousand who like them like [...]