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TEXAS DOESN’T MESS WITH US

Talk about a whirlwind weekend: we had the softball state championship, two daughters home from college, Maddy’s social engagements including a hilarious bowling party, a Husker home football game, and three houseguests from Texas.

Our second daughter Neely goes to Baylor. That’s who played Nebraska. So these kids invested their fall break into a 13-hour drive up here to find out that they were right: there IS so much corn in Nebraska, it’s in people’s front yards!

Actually, I bought six bunches of decorative cornstalks at the hardware store because ours from our garden had been on the ground too long and looked icky. I tied the cornstalks up on our front pillars and added some Indian corn, autumn ribbon, pumpkins and gourds. They don’t exactly look like they grew there, but they do look Nebraska-y.

The thing about these Texas college students was that they were SO nice and SO neat and SO polite. They made their beds and hung up their towels. They said ‘’please’’ and ‘’thank you.’’ They raved about the Cornhusker State. They asked questions about our lives and interacted beautifully with 4-year-old Maddy and her 70-something grandma. We just fell in love with these young people.

Don’t mess with Texas . . . because Nebraska’s got its back.

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Praise report: Thank You for the safe return to North Carolina and Texas of our precious young adults. Thank You for giving these houseguests such wonderful parents, who did such a great job teaching them manners. Bless their studies and reward their obedience. (Job 36:11)