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user: You are replying to Pat Knox about "BEHAVE....I AM BACK!  --- Me Too!!! <G><19:28:4004/30/98".

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PK> Yes, that is right.  I am back.  Anne and I were both gone at the same
PK> time this time, but you all did marvelously.  Thank you for that!
PK> Came home early (spent too much, but oh well!) because hubby had to
PK> work this weekend after all.  Came home to find that the lump on his
PK> leg that he had been complaining about was a brown recluse spider
PK> bite.  Sent him to the doctor's office immediately.  Hopefully we
PK> caught it early enough that it won't be too bad.  Hope so at least.
PK> Oh, yes, on a more humorous note.  Just before I left for Paducah I
PK> became a grandmother.  Yes, my 12 year old son presented me with a
PK> grandson.  Yes, he is 12 and NOT sexually active.  Seems that one of
PK> his teachers decided to teach the kids how to be more responsible.
PK> So, the kids had to make either "sugar babies" out of 5 lb. bags of
PK> sugar, or "flower children" out of 5 lb. bags of flower.  Well, we got
PK> a bag of flour and wrapped it in plastic bags and taped it up.  Then
PK> we took old socks, stuffed some inside of the others and made hands
PK> and feet.  A small ball stuffed in a sock (about 6" round) became the
PK> head.  Chris painted on hair, eyes, ears, nose and a mouth and Robert
PK> Nicolas Knox was born.  Chris's old premie outfit fit Robert to a T.
PK>  Shoes from one of the corner babies I have worked as well.  Chris
PK> used one of the baby quilts that I have on hand and gave his baby a
PK> small stuffed animal as a toy.  He made two 105's for grades on His
PK> "baby".  He had to take care of the 'baby' all weekend and only had 4
PK> hours of 'babysitting' time that he could use.  He did great!  Guess
PK> he will make a good father one of these days, hopefully not one day
PK> soon though!

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assistant: Hello PAT!
Monday April 27 1998 10:25, PAT KNOX wrote to ALL:
Well, we pulled this one off, Pat!  I think the folks in Crafting,
Cross-Stitching and Needles_Threads did MARVELOUS!!! <G><
Aaack!  Those can really be NASTY! :(  Hope he is doing well, now!
That was a fantastic exercise! <G><  I would rather see the children faced
with this sort of thing than just given some sort of talk about "responsible"
sex and handed a condom just in case!
Anyway, we saw our two grand-daughters the night of the 18th for about three
hours, and then headed to Mexico, Missouri for the church conference.  Once
we got to the conference it was NON-STOP teaching and/or preaching services
with just enough time inbetween to get lunch, go back get dinner and go back
again. With it being 27 miles to the National Campgrounds from Mexico it
meant we really had to "shake a leg" <G><
My knee behaved beautifully, I found out that my allergies are DEFINITELY
PINE TREE related, and had a wonderful week without symptoms!  I slept like a
log, worshipped and praised God, learned and grew spiritually.  The flights
on the planes were much too short to sleep much so, I had some crochet thread
and patterns with me.  I've got 1/2 of the Lighthouse wall hanging done that
is in the new 1998 "White Crochet" magazine that came out on the news stands
about two weeks before we left.  I would crochet on the way  to and from
services as much as the gravel roads would allow! <G><  Then I crocheted
quite a lot on the plane coming back.  On the way I didn't do any, because I
had had all of one hour sleep the night before we flew out.  I was beat when
we got to Kansas City the night of the 17th around 10:45 pm. <G><
Take care!
Anne McReary
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