It was hard work to keep our brood under control as they waited for their pancakes at a local diner last Sunday after Mass.\u00a0 I was exhausted just playing referee to the game of 20 questions that we were using to pass the time.\u00a0 At the table next to us, a little old lady ate her fried eggs and toast while she read the paper.\u00a0 It might have been easy to think of her as lonely or pathetic, but in fact she looked rather content.\u00a0 When we got up to leave she was still drinking her coffee and she patted my arm.\u00a0 I want to tell you, she said, I have 9 children.\u00a0 My grandchildren are older than your children now.\u00a0 I had tears in my eyes as I said, I feel like it is all I can do to put one foot in front of the other.\u00a0 Some days are like that, she responded.<\/p>\n
I hope that they remember to call her, I hope that she is not lonely, but I bet she really, really enjoys getting to read her paper and drink her coffee as slowly as she likes!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It was hard work to keep our brood under control as they waited for their pancakes at a local diner last Sunday after Mass.\u00a0 I was exhausted just playing referee to the game of 20 questions that we were using to pass the time.\u00a0 At the table next to us, a little old lady ate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":733,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n