Be Still and Know...Then and Now

I am thinking that all I want to do is make a hasty retreat to Walnut Grove and I don’t want to come home until January. I know life was hard during the pioneer days, however my longing for things to just be simple is palpable. I think that is what attracts me about baking bread. It’s a simple process, uncomplicated by the passing of time. Caroline Ingalls made her bread about the same way I make my bread today. I like that! Filling out health insurance applications and having someone else tell me what they will and will not pay for when I am paying for the premiums sends my blood pressure over the edge. Then that in turn renders me ineligible for health insurance. Not that I have high blood pressure but the process of getting health insurance is enough to send it though the roof. Caroline Ingalls didn’t worry about taking Half Pint to see Doc Baker or how she was going to pay for it! She traded him a basket of eggs or a quart of jam or invited him to Sunday supper. The fact that my h...

It’s that time again! Time to dive right in with all the wonderful randomness!!!!! 1. Is there a word which you initially mispronounced? Were the circumstances in which you made the faux pas embarrassing? By the way, that's not "foax pass." (I know you know that. Just jokin' with ya.) Just pick a chapter in the Old Testament, which we just happen to be wading through in Disciple I at the moment and you will quickly get over the act of mispronunciations. 5 Now Adonijah, whose mother was Haggith, put himself forward and said, "I will be king." So he got chariots and horses [ a ] ready, with fifty men to run ahead of him. 6 (His father had never interfered with him by asking, "Why do you behave as you do?" He was also very handsome and was born next after Absalom.) 7 Adonijah conferred with Joab son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest, and they gave him their support. 8 But Zadok the priest, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, S...

So here is my Flashback for this Friday, y’all grab your remote and enjoy! Tell about TV when you were growing up. Did your family have a TV? Although my daughter thinks I came from the ark ages we did in fact have a television as well as indoor plumbing, running water and even electricity when we were growing up. Was it color or b&w? If memory serves it was color, however seeing as my hormones have pushed all possibility of things like memory retrieval from my brain, this fact can not be positively verified. I do, however, have very vivid memories of making sure we were all seated in front of the television for the door opening scene of the Wizard of Oz! This tells me that we did in fact have a color television or I was delusion even as a small child! How many TVs did your family have? I think we only had one! Did you have one in your room? When I was in elementary school that simply was not a concept that was even considered. However I do think as the televisions got mor...

Here is what happened. The hubs leaves the house the other day and leaves his business cell phone plugged into the wall charger. I realize just a few minutes after he has pulled out of the driveway as I walk by the counter and see his phone still plugged into the wall. Can I call him to tell him that he needs to come back to the house, that would be a big NO! So I sit and wait patiently for him to call, which he does shortly after getting to the office. If he has an unusually busy day he will ask if I can bring him his phone, which being the dutiful and wonderful good wife that I am I usually do. However he just asked me to keep and eye out for it in case it rang and then to call him at the office if the need arose. All morning long as I worked on my disciple bible study there was nary a peep out of the device. Later as I worked on my random dozen it remained silent, Having finished my morning to do list I busied myself getting ready to go the the grocery store. As I was wa...

Inquiring mind want to know…if I have sent someone a friend request on Facebook and I see that they have recently accepted a request from someone on my friend list but have not responded to mine what does that say? I logged out this morning pondering… Do they not want to be friends with me? Is this a cyber dis? Why do I care? I could theoretically live the rest of my life and be very happy and never cross this person’s path ever again. It’s not like we even run in the same circles or have any outside connections beyond going to the same church. On rare occasions running in to each other when I am out and about grocery shopping or just running the occasional errand. It feels like a dis. It feels like being ignored and I wonder in this age of social networking and instant messaging if we have lost something in the cyber translation. Have we lost the art of friendship? Of being neighborly? Of being polite? The personal effort and time it takes to build a relationship with some...