I cracked up at that the other day. Ben was offended that I said no thank you to some food that was there. I wasn't hungry. I tried to explain that in my family it was ingrained into us to say no thank you. The children chimed in as if by rote. Enoch said, If you say no thank you to food in Walker it means you are sick. There is no other excuse for not eating. We laughed and laughed at the sheer outragious differences between us. That is the spice of life here in Walkerville.
The other night I had my 3 Walker women around me in a hair doing powwow and Emily started a schtick about what will happen when the family grows and there are a next generation of "BWalkers".
I couldn't breath, it was so funny. She said Elyse is going to live in some other country missioning and refuse to teach her children English. She will drop them at the house for Ben and I to watch them with the other cousins on a family reunion. (Elyse only wants boys) Emily says, Ben is going to take the oldest one down to the basement(we don't have a basement to give him a talking to) and I am going to remember after about an hour that the child doesn't speak English and remind him of it. I fell over. They said I am going to mistake the child for a 20 year old and tell him about the birds and the bees by diagram and he is only 9 years old, because Elyse is going to feed her children so organically that they will be very big for their age. Well he needed to know it anyway. They say that is all I do is teach them about the birds and the bees. We fell over and I almost burned whoever I was doing their hair.
Last night the joke was about the Night at the Museum movie. They know that I like history and Teddy Roosevelt especially and many a Teddy Roosevelt joke was bantered around while we watched that cutely depicted soliloquy of human history in the nutshell. I loved the second one, when we saw it and the first one was just as funny to me. They don't laugh because they don't study history like I do, so the joke is "you had to be there". Meaning that I am so old that when Teddy Roosevelt tells a joke, I am the only one who gets it.
A near choking incident made the evening complete. It is not a full dinner unless somebody almost chokes,:) then we have to stop joking and chew our food. "Boy, That Charles Walker had some really strong genes!"
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Those jokes are funny even written down. Thanks I needed some material for my acting class.
Your life is fun! You are a guest and your children seem to be the perfect hosts.
please tell Ezra not to laugh while he is eating food goes up your nose & it is not fun! Glad you saved him. Keep these coming they are really a joy.
Moonshadow made me spit at my customers on the phone. Where did it go? Thanks for the work day laugh. The pic went with the naughty thought of looking at your parents. I remember that look and I especially love that your lips were so chapped down to your chin, exaggerating the look. :)
I was afraid that I sounded too angry too wounded ~ Some days I wish things had gone differently~I will repost it but say a prayer we never get discovered. Thanks for catching it and liking it
There is a catharsis in forgiveness. I'm sorry I hurt you over the years of youth. I am glad that you are sensitive to the venom of unforgiveness.
Everybody has somebody that they are upset with. I kissed that little angry face, in the picture so many times and had it pop me and I popped it, back. The memory of the anger is even sweet because of the beauty of the maintainance of the relationship. "to bully is human and family, to forgive is divine." I love the crispness of the memory. I have those viscious things happening in my home because of the dynamic of family. Thank God that He created forgiveness or we would have killed eachother already. Love remains when the smoke clears and I'm grateful that we are still loving eachother when the smoke has cleared. Thank you for being sensitive to the perpetrators for my sake:). I am glad you forgive me.
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