Forgive the grammatical mistakes on this one. I am typing it out on my iPad and what with autocorrect and an abnormal keyboard, typos will just be a part of life. And, speaking of life, my son has just explained to me life according to Jake.
You see, apparently, women get fat and have a baby grow in their stomach. The baby is mysteriously born. It then grows, and grows,and grows until it is a big person. Once it is a big person, it starts to get old and fat ( and if you are a woman, you mysteriously born a kid or two) and then it dies.
"Wow, Jake, did you learn all that in school?" I ask, while mentally making a note to put a parent block on TLC and Discovery Health channels.
"Nope," he smugly says. "It's just something I thought of and like to call the People Cycle."
So, since my son has this whole People Cycle figured out at the ripe old age of six, I'm not sure if I should be relieved that some of the conversations that would have been scheduled closer to his teenage years can now be checked off the list, or if I should go cower in fear awaiting the next piece of deductive knowledge he decides to lay on me!
Fires, tornadoes, drought, and now a hurricane. It has been a rough time for our Lone Star State. I felt like she needed a love letter. Early in the year, fires in the panhandle had trucks come up the highways and interstates providing assistance to panhandle families who had lost family, herds, fences, and feed. Now, in the wake of Harvey, those trucks have been turned around, and the Panhandle sends them back full to the coastal families who now find themselves in need. (Our mamas taught us you never return a dish empty.) Our hearts ache for our fellow Texans on the coast. We know too well the feeling of loss. Regardless of the challenges ahead of us, we Texans generally manage to rise to the occasion. We don't have time to worry about those things that really don't matter. We have a job to do. I'm proud of my state and her residents. Those of us who trace our lineage back to the very founding of this Great State have had...
Be afraid. Be very afraid!!! :D
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