What I Learned from Her...the Series

Post #1

This is going to be a fun blog series about some of the things I've learned from some of the women that have been in my life.

It seems only fitting that the first post be about my mom, the first woman in my life.  One of the things I learned from her is ingenuity.  I remember a day that was storming.  It must have been during summer break because my brother, sister and I were all home and we were bored.   I don't recall how old we were.  I think I was probably about 10 years old, which would have made my brother around 7 and our sister a toddler.  So, what's a mom to do with three young kids on a stormy day?  Mom made us a picnic!  It wasn't anything fancy.  I know that for a fact because we didn't grow up with "fancy".  And I remember that she packed it all into a dutch oven size pan and put the lid on.  We carried our "picnic basket" to a side of the house that was undergoing some construction and we sat on the plywood floor and enjoyed our picnic.

Ingenuity= the quality of being clever, original, and inventive.  In other words, thinking outside the box.  Or the picnic basket, whatever the case may be.  :-)