{"id":1334,"date":"2016-01-25T02:36:25","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T02:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/franchlife.com\/?p=1334"},"modified":"2016-01-26T01:46:29","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T01:46:29","slug":"his-mother-said-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/?p=1334","title":{"rendered":"His Mother Said That"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My in-laws, husband and I were still sitting at the kitchen table. \u00a0Our day had begun more than an hour ago with some delicious breakfast tacos made with our scrambled farm fresh eggs. \u00a0I was sipping the last of my second cup of coffee as our children chatted with us from their stools at the kitchen bar. \u00a0The kids and I were still in our pajamas. \u00a0It was a lazy morning on the franch. \u00a0But, little did we know, that was about to change. \u00a0My father-in-law was in mid-sentence when my husband suddenly got up and went down the hallway toward the laundry room. \u00a0Before my father-in-law finished that same sentence, my husband was back with his overalls pulled over his jeans and his Franchlife long-sleeved t-shirt. \u00a0He didn&#8217;t have to say anything to our children. \u00a0Up they dutifully stood and carried their plates over to the sink. \u00a0Our children know what daddy in his overalls means. \u00a0It turns out our lazy morning didn\u2019t last very long, abruptly ending at 8:52 a.m. \u00a0It\u2019s moments like these that I know why my husband\u2019s father nicknamed him \u201clight-switch\u201d as a boy. \u00a0It\u2019s something he never grew out of it. \u00a0You really don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen from one moment to the next with that man. \u00a0\u201cWhat are we going to do, daddy?\u201d inquires our youngest as my husband helps her into her pink and white striped John Deere overalls. \u00a0\u201cWe need to butcher the last of those chickens before your piano lesson this afternoon and I have to go to work.\u201d \u00a0When they all head out to the barn, my mother-in-law and I start to clean up the kitchen. \u00a0The back door opens, \u201cKel\u2014,\u201d he doesn\u2019t even finish my name before I yell back, \u201cI&#8217;m coming, sweetheart!\u201d even though I\u2019m still in my pajamas. \u00a0I grab a sponge to wipe the counter. \u00a0My mother-in-law says, \u201cHe\u2019s like a force, isn\u2019t he? \u00a0It\u2019s amazing how you don\u2019t resist the force. \u00a0You just go with it.\u201d \u00a0(You know by the choice of her words that grandma gave into her grandkids last week and went with them to see <em>Star Wars: The Force Awakens<\/em>!). \u00a0I reassure her that I don\u2019t mind it most of the time because it makes every day of my life with her son an adventure. \u00a0Her comments remind me of an email\u00a0she wrote over a year ago after she read the first four blog posts on franchlife.com. \u00a0It reads, \u201cYour renderings are precious. \u00a0You\u2019ve reminded me of the basis of a recent Bible conference at our church. \u00a0The speaker stressed for us to look at nuisances to life-challenging circumstances in our lives as, \u2018What are you trying to teach me, Lord?\u2019 \u00a0Thanks, dear, for loving my son. \u00a0If you didn\u2019t know Jesus, I\u2019m sure it would be a lot harder. \u00a0You have to have extended much grace and forgiveness.\u201d \u00a0Of course, I had forwarded that immediately to my husband for a good laugh. \u00a0I keep that email in my archives for those times my husband forgets what I put up with. \u00a0His own mother knows what it takes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My in-laws, husband and I were still sitting at the kitchen table. \u00a0Our day had begun more than an hour ago with some delicious breakfast tacos made with our scrambled farm fresh eggs. \u00a0I was sipping the last of my second cup of coffee as our children chatted with us from their stools at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1334"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1348,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions\/1348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}