Writing vs. sittin on the boys

This article appeared in the Valley Times/West Point News last week.  I didn't want to leave you out.  I also wanted you to know about our August event.

Writing has taken a back seat to baby holding.  Baby holding is a lot more fun.  It’s also a great cure for insomnia.  It has also taken precedence over gardening.  Just ask the weeds.  Party—she’s got the boys or she went the Hedgie House to sit on boys.  I did some speed gardening in the front yesterday.  It didn’t take long for the sun reflecting off the siding on the house to run me indoors.  I did manage to get the major offenders pulled up or cut back one more time.  The good news is that the Lord has taken over the watering for me.  Hurrah. 

Duke Boy and I had the opportunity to take a little trip down to the Keys to participate in a wedding.  One of your own, Joey Johnson.  He now has a lovely new family. What a lovely place Key West is.  I’ve visited there once on bus tour years ago but only for an afternoon.  This time we stayed on the water, walked the city, and ate everything we saw.  I made it a point to eat something Key Lime at every meal---Key lime French toast, Key lime muffins, Key lime tea, key lime and mango salad dressing.  The best one of all was in the airport on the way home—Duke Boy got a chocolate dipped piece of Key Lime pie on a stick.  Wow.  He let me have a bite or 3.

Everywhere we went in Keys was very welcoming.  People just seemed to spring out to help you.  This was not our experience at the Atlanta airport where we had to search out the correct security line for our plane.  Enough about that---the Keys are a tourist destination so they seemed to do their best to make us want us to return.  Duke Boy was so impressed with Harriette’s Restaurant in Key Largo that he used them as a sermon illustration.  It was an amazing little place. When we arrived we were greeted with a friendly hello and then treated to the warm smile, and lovely blonde sticky uppy hair of a waitress about our age.  I may have to do that blonde thing again because she was totally rockin my look with her color. The muffin list there had about 15 choices and, of course, Key Lime was one of them.  It was big enough to share so that was our appeteaser—Ms. Blonde’s word.  Delicious.  Only knocked off its’ favorites pedestal by the chocolate pie on a stick at the airport.   We returned the next morning and shared the coconut muffin appeteaser.  Lucky the plane managed to get off the ground with all those folks who’d been in Key West.

Speaking of fun places to be…”Join us on the Journey” on August 26, 2014 at noon at First United Methodist Church in West Point.  The Hedgie Family, my daughter and her husband, will be sharing their love story of bringing double bundles of love into our family.  This will be our annual fundraiser for the Pastoral Institute.  Our Chambers County Sherriff Sid Lockhart will be cooking up burgers for our indoor picnic.  The tickets are $35 each for individual seats.  We also have seating for 8 if you’d like to purchase an entire table for $300 and sit with 7 close friends. Our corporate sponsor tables are $375 and come with lots of fun and accolades for your support.  You can call our office at 334-768-2341 to get a ticket or see one of our board members:  Bill Edwards, Marilyn Stokes, Lessie Beck, Donnie Erwin-Brown, Mary Susan Underwood, Shelly Hunter, Christine Simpson, Sandra Thornton, Marshall Sapp, or Traci Crosby .  They will also be visiting local businesses for door prizes soon.  I hope you will give them a Harriette’s welcome.

Karen Erwin-Brown is the director of the Valley office of the Pastoral Institute. She provides individual, family, and marital counseling by appointment.  She also hobbies a booth at Bluffton Antiques where there is great sale.  Call 334-768-2341 for an appointment or to purchase your tickets for our luncheon. 

Writing has taken a back seat to baby holding.  Baby holding is a lot more fun.  It’s also a great cure for insomnia.  It has also taken precedence over gardening.  Just ask the weeds.  Party—she’s got the boys or she went the Hedgie House to sit on boys.  I did some speed gardening in the front yesterday.  It didn’t take long for the sun reflecting off the siding on the house to run me indoors.  I did manage to get the major offenders pulled up or cut back one more time.  The good news is that the Lord has taken over the watering for me.  Hurrah. 

Duke Boy and I had the opportunity to take a little trip down to the Keys to participate in a wedding.  One of your own, Joey Johnson.  He now has a lovely new family. What a lovely place Key West is.  I’ve visited there once on bus tour years ago but only for an afternoon.  This time we stayed on the water, walked the city, and ate everything we saw.  I made it a point to eat something Key Lime at every meal---Key lime French toast, Key lime muffins, Key lime tea, key lime and mango salad dressing.  The best one of all was in the airport on the way home—Duke Boy got a chocolate dipped piece of Key Lime pie on a stick.  Wow.  He let me have a bite or 3.

Everywhere we went in Keys was very welcoming.  People just seemed to spring out to help you.  This was not our experience at the Atlanta airport where we had to search out the correct security line for our plane.  Enough about that---the Keys are a tourist destination so they seemed to do their best to make us want us to return.  Duke Boy was so impressed with Harriette’s Restaurant in Key Largo that he used them as a sermon illustration.  It was an amazing little place. When we arrived we were greeted with a friendly hello and then treated to the warm smile, and lovely blonde sticky uppy hair of a waitress about our age.  I may have to do that blonde thing again because she was totally rockin my look with her color. The muffin list there had about 15 choices and, of course, Key Lime was one of them.  It was big enough to share so that was our appeteaser—Ms. Blonde’s word.  Delicious.  Only knocked off its’ favorites pedestal by the chocolate pie on a stick at the airport.   We returned the next morning and shared the coconut muffin appeteaser.  Lucky the plane managed to get off the ground with all those folks who’d been in Key West.

Speaking of fun places to be…”Join us on the Journey” on August 26, 2014 at noon at First United Methodist Church in West Point.  The Hedgie Family, my daughter and her husband, will be sharing their love story of bringing double bundles of love into our family.  This will be our annual fundraiser for the Pastoral Institute.  Our Chambers County Sherriff Sid Lockhart will be cooking up burgers for our indoor picnic.  The tickets are $35 each for individual seats.  We also have seating for 8 if you’d like to purchase an entire table for $300 and sit with 7 close friends. Our corporate sponsor tables are $375 and come with lots of fun and accolades for your support.  You can call our office at 334-768-2341 to get a ticket or see one of our board members:  Bill Edwards, Marilyn Stokes, Lessie Beck, Donnie Erwin-Brown, Mary Susan Underwood, Shelly Hunter, Christine Simpson, Sandra Thornton, Marshall Sapp, or Traci Crosby .  They will also be visiting local businesses for door prizes soon.  I hope you will give them a Harriette’s welcome.

Karen Erwin-Brown is the director of the Valley office of the Pastoral Institute. She provides individual, family, and marital counseling by appointment.  She also hobbies a booth at Bluffton Antiques where there is great sale.  Call 334-768-2341 for an appointment or to purchase your tickets for our luncheon.