Dear Reader:

What a busy last couple of days I have spent but all wonderful! I left Friday morning to go to Eva Cate’s dance camp performance and stayed on to keep Eva Cate and Jakie Friday night and to be there Saturday to help Mandy with a birthday party Eva Cate was attending and later her modeling debut for the Belk’s Back to School Fashion Show. Then home in time to keep Rutledge and Lachlan so Walsh and Mollie could go to Walsh’s high school reunion at Miler Country Club. Everyone spent the night….so I have been surrounded by lots of family….love it.

When I went with Mandy Friday to pick up Jakie one of the teachers said they were teaching the children not to hit, pinch, tackle, or bite by telling them to “Walk Away.” Somehow I didn’t see a group of almost two-year-olds doing that….but we all nodded back we would re-enforce this at home. (Later that night as Jakie threw himself on Eva Cate while back-walking….they both just laughed when I said “Walk Away” Jakie….they were enjoying the sibling tussling too much.

Camp Dance Show:

Good friend Lili’s sixth birthday party Saturday morning…..lots of bouncing going on….

You might have picked up from Friday to Saturday’s events Eva Cate’s hair ‘grew shorter.’ Actually she got a bad trim that left her two sides lop-sided so Mandy had to take her to another salon to get them evened up which meant cutting more off early Saturday morning….but Eva Cate liked it and the show must go on.

Belk Back to School Fashion Show

I hurried home and Walsh, Mollie and the boys were not far behind. We had a chance to talk a little and chase the boys around some before Walsh and Mollie left for the reunion. I was very proud of myself….got Lachlan asleep on the sofa and Rutledge asleep in his new bed. What a day…..one filled with memories for a lifetime.

The only time Jakie “walked away” was to hug Daddy before he and Mommy left to go out to eat….and that’s a pretty good “walk away.”

But it did remind me of one of Archibald Rutledge’s cutest stories told by sharecroppers on Hampton Plantation to explain why some people (like grandmother used to say) seem to be walking around with “one screw loose.”

“The Legend of the Walk Off People”

It appears that on one occasion Adam, deeply troubled, sought out God in the Garden of Eden.

“God,” he said, “you know how I love to catch fish in the river and to hunt rabbits. But Eve, she’s always complaining. She says that she gets lonesome because I fish and hunt so much. She’s talking of leaving me.”

“That’s easy,” said God, “come down to the creek with me, and we will make a few more people. They will keep Eve company while you are away from her hunting and fishing.”

Arriving at the water’s edge, God shaped some new people out of mud, and then leaned them against a rail fence to dry.

“Adam,” he said, “I will come back before sundown and put some brains in them.”

But God, forgetting that He had some other prior engagements that afternoon, did not return to finish His work until the next morning.

And it was then… to His surprise and dismay, that He discovered the people with no brains had walked off! And (do you know) they have been increasing and multiplying ever since! You might even have met one!

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Doesn’t that story explain a lot or what??????????????????

So until tomorrow….Life moves pretty fast….let’s seize a few moments to just have fun with the ones we love….sharing tales along the way.

“Today is my favorite day”  Winnie the Pooh