Sunday, June 29, 2025

Sunday! Sunday! Sunday Stealing!

Welcome to Sunday Stealing. Here we will steal all types of questions from every corner of the blogosphere. Our promise to you is that we will work hard to find the most interesting and intelligent questions. Cheers to all of us thieves!

This week we return to steal again from Manic Mondaya blog that is no more.

Just Another Manic Monday

1. What is something you should throw away, but just can't bring yourself to part with? 

Sometimes I have a hard time throwing away sentimental items. Mark nor I are "keepers." We don't like clutter and we don't have a lot of tchotchkes (I looked up the spelling for that word! There are a lot of consonants and very few vowels in that word!!). We still have full cabinets, closets, attic, and garage. My office upstairs might be the one room that has too much stuff. That is where the sentimental things, like art from our granddaughters, goes to live.

Lots of artwork from trips in the hallway
and family photos and kid's drawings in my office

2. When you make yourself a sandwich, do you cut it on the diagonal, straight up the middle, or not at all? 

The only sandwich I usually cut is a grilled cheese. After making the sandwich, I cut the crusts off and eat those first. Sometimes I cut the sandwich into four little squares and sometimes I just eat the rest of the sandwich whole (minus crusts that I've already eaten). 

3. What song or sound brings back memories of childhood? 

Jesus loves the little children. 

All the children of the world. 

Red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in his sight. 

Jesus loves the little children of the world.

I remember singing that song in Sunday School and Vacation Bible school as a kid. I imagine it isn't politically correct in 2025. From what I understand, the song was meant to be more inclusive back in the 1960's, but today it may be racist, and if so, I truly apologize for even typing the lyrics. 

I think one of the sounds that brings back childhood memories would be lawnmowers on Saturday mornings (along with the smell of freshly mown grass).

You didn't ask this -- but a smell that takes me back to childhood is of a roast cooking in the oven or homemade vegetable beef soup cooking on the stove.

4. Who is the first person you call when you have good news? 

If Mark isn't with me, he is usually the first person I call! I usally call or text our kids, too.

5. Have you ever set out on a walk in the rain? 

Are you asking if I went on a walk in the rain for pleasure or exercise? I have, but not in a few years. When we are traveling in another country and are there for a limited amount of time, we head out in the rain quite often.

Kylemore Abbey in the rain (horrible selfie) Galway, Ireland

Rain jackets on a cold and rainy day in Israel




9 comments:

  1. That song still isn't racist. Sing on!

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  2. I don't think that song is racist. I find walks in the rain to be quite meditative. Also wet.

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    1. I laughed at your comment . . .yes, those walks in the rain are also wet!

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  3. The song is not racist. Maybe overly sentimental

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    1. It is one of those songs where if I close my eyes, I can actually see myself sitting in one of those little wooden chairs in a sunday school room singing that song! It probably is overly sentimental.

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  4. I enjoyed your responses! It rained a lot while we were in Rome. Rain gear was onboard, but we still missed exploring the Collisium because it was pouring on the day we were there. Have a glessed week ahead!

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    1. I don't think it rained on us when we were in Rome. It was hot as blazes!! I hope you have a great week!

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  5. Your photos reminded me of my first trip to DisneyWorld. It rained like CRAZY our first day and since we only had two days, and we weren't going to miss half our fun, so we just got drenched. I remember my cousin standing under an awning, absent-mindedly sucking the moisture from her rainhat as she checked the map to plan our next ride. So walking in the rain wasn't our intention, but being wet is a BIG part of our memories!

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