Fidgeting along the way hodgepodge

Join us with us for the weekly Hodgepodge. Joyce provides the questions and we answer! What say you?

What's something you wish you'd figured out sooner? I have talked about this on another post, but I wish I had known that I am enough. Some days I still struggle with this, but I keep reminding myself that I am enough.

Something from childhood you still enjoy today? I still love hanging out with friends! I still love “dressing” (not stuffing but dressing) which has been one of my favorite foods for a long time.

Are you a fidgeter? What's the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word fidget? I come from a long line of fidgeter. As I’m typing this, my legs are jiggling under my desk. My sister, daughter, and one granddaughter are hair twiddlers. Both of our kids and I jiggle our legs. I have been sitting on a church pew with them and it felt like we were about to take off! All of those things come to mind when I think of fidget PLUS now, I think of those little fidget gadgets we give to kids. I wonder if I wouldn’t wiggle so much if I had one of those?? We even have similar fidget toys available for kids during worship each week.

Your favorite fall vegetable? How do you like it prepared? I love butternut squash. I like it cubed, seasoned, with olive oil roasted in the oven. I REALLY like it the way we serve it for big meals at my mother-in-law’s house. We mash it and put sugar and eggs and milk in it and bake it in the oven and then top with pecans or marshmallows. I don’t eat much sugar anymore, so I don’t fix it this way at home, but it is soooo good! It is similar to a sweet potato casserole, but it isn’t so starchy, and it is a much lighter dish.

Butternut squash (we usually call
it pumpkin casserole)

What's something you find mildly annoying, but not annoying enough to actually do anything about? Might you now? I’m hyper aware of this right now, but I hate sniffing. Especially the gross kind of sniffling – I won’t go into details. Someone sitting near my in staff chapel today kept sniffing and about every third sniffle, it was one of those gross ones. I don’t think I can do anything about it.

Insert your own random thought here.  We have our first hint of cold weather here in Alabama. Today’s weather is more like January. It will be below freezing tonight, and I don’t think it is getting out of the 50’s during the day today. The good news is fall isn’t over and warmer temperatures will return. I would have a very hard time living in a place where cold weather has already set in and will be there to stay until spring thaw.