Jotting Joan

Month: December 2007

  • New Year’s resolutions … of a sort

    It is a new year and I have resolved this year to blow it all off and live a little. This year I am going to enjoy myself. Instead of mentally weighing and measuring calories and nutrition and resolving to lose weight – this year I resolve to eat candy bars, hamburgers, deep fried fish,…

  • How will you respond?

    At this time of year, the Christmas story plays before us once again. An angel interrupted the nighttime hush that first Christmas Eve to announce the long awaited Savior to shepherds watching their flocks out in the fields near Bethlehem, “I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people.…

  • a couple old codgers put up the christmas tree

    The time had come. We had no more excuses. No more activities, no more company, no more other tasks to do. It was time and past to put up the tree my husband had purchased at the after Christmas sales last year. Because I had to work last year, he had gone by himself and…

  • Grandma Waight feeds us

    Grandma Waight enjoyed feeding folks. She rarely left her house and extensive flower garden, but welcomed those who visited with simple food. On Sundays, after Dad and my brothers finished the evening milking on our dairy farm, we went to visit her. Mom spent the time talking with her mother. Dad accompanied us – his…

  • Thanksgiving gathering

    After driving from Missouri for Thanksgiving, that branch of the Hershberger family promises no more traveling – until the expected child makes her debut in February. The pre-holiday rains Wednesday evening enticed them to hunker down in a hotel for the night. Son and daughter-in-love arrived in the bright sunshine of Thanksgiving Day in time…