Dear Reader:

Eva Cate is a putterer….a tinkerer… whose favorite thing to do (in the whole wide world) is taking small objects and moving them from point A to Point “ I don’t know because you can’t find them again.”

I must admit the acorn doesn’t fall far from the grandmother oak….me. I love to putter around too…randomly picking up something, like the remote, and unconsciously carrying it into all the rooms where I am “cleaning up” without ever returning it to the den….where I need it to turn the television on or off or simply change channels.

I never cease to be completely befuddled over the mystery of the disappearing remote. When one lives alone…deductive reasoning points to you and that is the case unless grandchildren are around.

It takes several weeks after Eva Cate has been to see Boo Boo to discover everything and place it back where it belongs. *You might remember Anne was drinking her wine when she discovered Eva Cate’s penny (that she placed in a wine glass during one of her visits) stuck in the bottom of the glass.

While I was getting ready to do storytelling for some campers this week at Trident Tech for Sandy Fraser (yesterday) I kept looking for my favorite pair of earrings….clip-on’s that don’t pinch. I tore through every jewelry box, eyeglass case, pocketbook and purse I could find. No luck!

I, then went to get a book off the shelf to take to the storytelling session and I saw my puppet doll, Thomas Jefferson, holding his feathered pen, and Declaration of Independence scroll under his arm…..wearing clip-on earrings. Mystery solved! Eva Cate had struck again.

Sometimes I think the world is divided into two groups: The organizers who know where something…anything…is at any given moment and then the rest of us…the tinkerers, the putterers…the spirits who are destined to randomly wander through life looking for car keys, pocketbooks, iPhones, and one missing shoe to match the other. Ah…such is life!

But for those of us in the second category (in our scatterbrained defense)…our “condition” does bring us closer to God…since we are always praying: “Oh God please help me find my car keys so I won’t be late for this or that… “Oh God…please tell me that I didn’t leave the car windows rolled down halfway this afternoon now that it is midnight with torrential rains and gusty winds blowing. “Oh God…I know I am a lamebrain…but You do know that I love you, don’t You?…and this child scatterbrain of Yours appreciates everything You do for me every single day…I couldn’t get through a day without You.” 

Yep, we putterers and tinkerers are lost little lambs when it comes to remembering where things are…but we never forget Who keeps bringing us back in the fold.

This is the beginning of a new day.

I have been given this day to use as I will.

I can waste it or use it for good.

What I do today is important.

Because I’m exchanging a 

day of my life for it.

When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone

forever leaving in its place whatever I have traded

for it. 

I pledge to myself that it shall be;

Gain not loss; Good not evil;

Success, not failure; Love not fear

in order that I shall not regret the price I paid for this day.

………………………….

Yesterday was on of those days that I will never regret the price I paid for it….sharing my love of storytelling with fifteen children, their wonderful teacher, Danielle, and their director-Sandy Fraser at Trident Tech.

Sandy and I did the “No News” skit together and had a ball…then the story of “Fortunately and Unfortunately” and how it applies to our lives…ending with “The Boo Hag of Beidler Swamp”….an amazing day with some future storytellers and artists! Thanks Sandy for the invitation to join all of you!

The children were all into the stories asking lots of questions…one future artist drew her imaginative interpretation of a Boo Hag…Thanks McKenzie for your illustration…if I ever publish the story…your drawings will be in it.

Sandy and I exchanged some surcies…I gave her some Boo’s Garden flowers and I received some homemade banana bread and nuts….yummy! So looking forward to breakfast this morning! Love ya Sandy….Have fun with those adorable campers the rest of the week!

So until tomorrow…Let us never forget the price we pay for each day and make it the best one ever.

“Today is my favorite day”  Winnie the Pooh

You are looking at a mother-daughter team whose courage and tenacity is something beyond belief…the power of love can’t be beat! Go get’em  you Wild Women Warriors! Little “c” doesn’t stand a chance against you two….it might as well just slink away like the coward it is!!!

* To  my Ya friends & families… who are going through all kinds of difficult challenges, but also dreams of a new future….remember:

God understands

He is your provider

today, tomorrow, and always

And He loves you

Cast all your cares on Him

and Believe!

– Linda Knight

Prayers are bouncing off everyone like atoms in the universe…Do you feel them…do you feel the hug, the  soft caress…God is in your presence. And He’s not letting go!