For a change I want to post a short story about Linda and I when we were little girls. I had not thought about the incident in years and one day I saw a cartoon that brought the memory flooding back into my thought. We have a wonderful God that brings back to our memory those special times if we are willing to listen and open to hearing from him. Go with me as I tell the story of the time mom was on the phone and we decided we could leave home.
Cartoon Phone Call.
It is often the little things in life that trigger a memory. In the newspaper yesterday, June 24, 2013, there was a cartoon for Family Circle by Bill Keane. The mom was on the phone, the three kids were looking at her and the little girl said, "It's gonna be a lot longer wait now. Mommy just changed ears."
A priceless cartoon for me and I had to laugh. Linda and I must have been about 7 and our cousin Gordon was at our house playing. His mom, Reaven, called for Gordon to come home. The three of us didn't want to stop playing. We were having fun the the field west of the house. So Linda and I went to ask Mom for permission to go home with Gordon. The problem was, Mom was still on the phone talking to Reaven. We kept asking, but, mom never answered. So we finely said, "Bye Mom, we're going home with Gordon."
We made it to Gordon's house, several blocks away and across the main highway through town. When the three of us went in the house, Reaven was waiting. Gordon's mom said, "You girls are to go straight home"
On the return trip home,we had a lot to think about and worry about. I don't remember what kind of trouble we got into, but, we never pulled that again. You didn't interrupt Mom when she was on the phone and you certainly did not leave home.
That cartoon is now taped to the corner of my computer. A wonderful reminder of a special time in my life, when a lesson was learned, almost 60 years ago.
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