My mom embarrassed me years ago when she called our small town post office and complained about slow package delivery. I gave the eulogy at mom ’ s memorial service, and I told the mortifying story at the chapel. Respectful laughter filled the room. However, embarrassment doesn ’ t bother you when you ’ re dead in the grave and maybe that ’ s the lesson here today. Mom loved to send packages to me in Arizona. She often mailed pencils, recipe clippings, bars of soap, cereal, odds and ends that were meaningful to her. Mom never understood that her mailings to a hick town in the west take a heck of a lot longer than it does in Chicago. I got umpteen phone calls from her before any shipment arrived and she would ask impatiently: “ Did you get my package yet? ” It was about six years ago when retrieving my mail, Toni, my favorite clerk shouted to me across the room from the front desk, “Your mother called me yesterday. She...
I have a pie to bake today. Aren't you glad I do not have dentures :)
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness; this makes me remember the year I forgot to put sugar in the pumpkin pies. Uck!!!
ReplyDeleteHope you're enjoying Arizona's cool & colorful Fall?
Blessings,
Kathleen
LOL...Very imaginative granny though! Have a great weekend sister and God bless and keep you!
ReplyDeleteOh what a hoot! Thanks for smiles.
ReplyDeleteHow's it going out there in AZ?
Blessings.
Ooooohhhhh, nooooo! LOLOLOL!!!! Gotta give Granny credit for ingenuity, anyhow. Reckon I'll get my pie from Publix this year, lol!
ReplyDeleteThanks ever so for a much-needed end-of-a-long-week laugh!
Have a JESUS-filled day! ^i^
I'm still laughing at this one :D
ReplyDeleteLove you,
Alleluiabelle
Oh, me...I hope that's NOT the way my mother makes her pies. We always go to my parents' house for Thanksgiving! lol
ReplyDeleteOh that's just wrong right there. LOL! Thanks for the laugh my friend.
ReplyDeleteHave a most excellent super duper weekend.
Hugs
Kim
Oh yuck - how disgusting! I LOVED it!!
ReplyDeleteThat is so funny!!! You always make me laugh.
ReplyDeleteBlessings,
Bren
Go Granny go! Ha, I saw that coming. Enjoyed.
ReplyDeletee-Mom @ Chrysalis
Oh I love this!!!!!! As I read the last line I had a visual that sent me over the edge laughing.
ReplyDeleteYou are such a precious sister in Christ. I bet you bring SMILES every where the LORD takes you.
Love ya