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Skriven 2014-09-26 12:05:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
Ärende: Re: exactitude 702
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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 09-23-14  19:46 <=-

 NB>>> Focusing on what one has been spared, rather than what one's
 NB>>> been through, is probably a healthier outlook...
 RH>> Counting blessings, not bummers is always a healthier outlook.
 NB>> True..... and one can count even some of the less pleasant events
 NB>> as blessings, in hindsight and with a proper perspective...  ;)

 RH> The blessings in big time disguises. (G)

Quite often.  :)

 NB>> I suppose competition might play a role... but it could also be just a
 NB>> health-consciousness happening here, too.  WYSIWYG is still usually
 NB>> the name of the game, just different versions thereof, though...  :)

 RH> Especially if you're on a special diet. Food choices are much more
 RH> limited. In a smaller operation there's less call for the special
 RH> diets so probably much less rotation among options to choose from for
 RH> the meal.
 
Possibly. 

 NB>> It was a teacher-planned event, to bring a family member to school
 NB>> that day...  I think it was a half day... hard to remember that far
 NB> back... could have been full day,

 RH> A good chance it was a half day event, especially if you were in
 RH> kindergarten and brought a younger sibling.

Except that I do remember that we were doing some (small amount of)
actual schoolwork, which would argue for a longer session... 

 NB>> as I don't remember a major change lengthwise between K and 1st
 NB>> grade... The bigger change was the move from Indiana
 NB>> to Mississippi...  (G)  Pretty sure that K was full-day at the school
 NB>> that my siblings and I went to the following years there... probably
 NB>> also at the school in PA, after the next move...  :)

 RH> We all went to the same K-12 school but I was the only one of my sibs
 RH> that didn't go to an off site classroom at any time. M'ville had
 RH> several over the years, just not when my class went thru.

Your family didn't keep moving from state to state... ;)  We'd all be at
the same school, whichever it was, given that we were all schoolage.. ;)
At least until we moved here, and the youngers were at the Christian
school (K-8), and the older ones were at the public high school...

 NB>>> grabbed a few cookies (maybe graham crackers) to go with it, as
 NB>>> was the usual practice when Daddy did it...  :)
 RH>> Saw Daddy doing it so figured she could do it as well.
 NB>> Something like that...  :)

 RH> And probably pretty proud of herself doing so as well.

Or at least smugly satisfied...  (G)
 
 NB>> missed your record of 5 at once only because the 7 year span is plus 3
 NB>> weeks rather than short... so I turned 20 3 weeks before Lydia turned
 NB>> 13. The other 3 kids were more spaced out... Almost 16 years between
 NB>> me and my youngest sibling, John...

 RH> He probably thought he had several moms & dads. 

Dunno about that... but at least I was a second mommy... helped raise at
least the youngest 4... 

 RH> There's 12.5 years between Lisa's sons so the younger one (now 17)
 RH> thought he had 3 parents. Our girls are 20 months, 2 weeks apart
 RH> so Rachel was too young to act like a mommy to her baby sister.

My sister Lesesne had 5 kids pretty close together, a boy and 4 girls...
then she thought she was done...  Then she had a caboose baby girl,
about 8 or 9 years later... Debby did think that she had about 5
mothers...  ;)  When Sarah came along a little later, my sister was glad
to have another, to keep Debby from being an "only baby"... saved her
from be totally spoiled...  ;)   Debby wasn't so much a mommy to her
little sister as her older sisters had been to her...  :)

ttyl           neb

... If life gives you lemons, keep them, because hey, free lemons.

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