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This week is crazy.

Crazy busy.

So I thought I would share this quote… because it is exactly what I need to hear.

What is really important isn’t crazy or complicated.

It’s stopping to hear what my kids have to say.  It’s remembering to appreciate the little moments.  It’s knowing that it’s the little moments I’ll always remember.  Not the long list of things I have to do.

So today, even though I feel stressed and overwhelmed.  I promise I will take a little time to sit with the kids in the porch swing.  I’ll read to them.  I ask them what they are thinking about.

I’ll make today worth remembering.

I can’t help myself.  I love to say the word mulligrubs… even if I don’t ever want to have them.

Do you know what the mulligrubs are?

Let me give you a hint.

With cherries in season where I live… the mulligrubs are going around.

I had never heard of the mulligrubs (though I had suffered from them more than once as a child) until I met my husband.  His mother’s family is from Eastern Tennessee… and the word traveled across the country with his mamaw when they moved out West.

I looked up the word in the dictionary and mulligrub does exist: it is a very old and almost extinct word for a headache or stomachache.

Far from extinct in our family, to us the mulligrubs is a stomachache that comes from eating too many cherries…. or green apples… or plums.

Mulligrubs = Too much of a good thing

So enjoy the bounty of the season (in moderation of course!)