Hitting Bottom

When the Mama of the family doesn’t feel up to shopping regularly, household staples can sometimes run a little low. Take, for example, bathroom tissue, or if you prefer, toilet paper. We haven’t run out; just low. So low that each of our bathrooms was on its last roll. On the um . . . [...]

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Sunday Post

“Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.” – W. T. Purkiser
Psalm 118:1
I love this quote. I think I could use a daily reminder, not so much to count my blessings — that, I do — but to use them well. Sometimes [...]

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Nuttin’ Much

I was never a big “Friends” (the TV show) fan, but I do remember the Thanksgiving episode in which Phoebe accuses Joey of wearing her maternity pants, and he says something like, “They were your maternity pants. Now, they’re my Thanksgiving pants!” On the way to my SIL’s for the festivities, I realized that I [...]

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Thankful for . . .

Recently in comments here, Ortizzle allowed that she was “one more drop in the ocean of friends” wishing me well. That didn’t sit right with me. First of all, there aren’t enough of y’all to make an ocean. You’d be a puddle. A very inviting puddle — like, to a preschooler with new rubber boots [...]

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Turkey Farm Redux

According to SiteMeter, most of the new visitors to “What Was I Thinking?” in the last couple of days have come here searching for turkey tips. And I think someone has even picked up last year’s turkey post and distributed it in a mass email, which is kind of flattering. After last week’s WTF-ishness, I [...]

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Hate the Sin, Love the Sinner?

On the way home from church yesterday, LG says to me, “Isn’t it funny how someone can do something that you really hate, and they keep doing that thing that you hate, and they won’t stop, but even though you hate the things they do, you can never really hate the person?”
“That’s true . . [...]

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Sunday Post ~ "Life is not easy for any of us….

Sunday Post ~ “Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.” – Marie Curie
I Corinthians 12:4-6I Cornithians 15:58
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Wish I Didn’t Know Now What I Didn’t Know Then

I’ve tried to write this one a few times, but it’s too hard. I need to scale back my aspirations. I started trying to do a history of all the symptoms that have appeared, disappeared, taken root, morphed, etc., to try to tell you WTF WTF is, but it overwhelms me and it would bore [...]

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Sunday Post ~ "Any concern too small to be tu…

Sunday Post ~ “Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.” – Corrie Ten Boom
If you’ve been around here much, you know that I’m pretty big on prayer. Prayer has many meanings, from very simple to very complex. I tend toward [...]

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Biscuit Friday ~ Extreme Makeover: Dog Edition

Here’s the “Before.” Note the obstruction of the eyeholes:

And the “Before” rearview. Note the obstruction of the . . . well, note the obstruction. However, it is not as alarming as it may first appear:

It’s a leaf. I was so relieved:

Now all holes are unobstructed. The Dog Wash got a little carried away [...]

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