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So many times people are told to mind their own business. But so many don't bother to do that. There is even an old country song that is named that. George Jones did a duet with I think it was Tammy Wynett on that one. I know this because its one of my favorite songs ever. In the song they tell people... "Mind your own buisness and you won't be mindin' mine." You know there is a lot of truth to that. I have lived in small towns for years now. Different ones. But the one thing I have noticed the most is that people are so busy minding everyone elses business that they don't have a clue as to what is going on in their own home. I am one of those people who does mind her own business. I live in too big of a household to bother with anyone elses. Its hard to keep track of every one here and yet its my job to do it. Although I have to mind my own business a little less with the older two boys. They are of an age when they have to take some responsibility for themselves and there are some places in their lives where a mother has no place meddling. Its plenty to just let them know you are there if they need you for some reason in these cases.

I once was told I was the least nosey person that they had ever met. It was a man that lived a couple of blocks away from me. I had asked him how his mother was (just being polite because I knew she had been so ill because there was a prayer request for her at church a few months previous). Few months? Yup... the woman had died and been gone for three months! Yikes! He said ... You must be the only person in this town that doesn't gossip. I told him I was too busy minding my own household to keep up with everyone else. This isn't me bragging. I have stuck my nose somewhere where it shouldn't have been a time or two and got what I deserved for it too. I am human and have made plenty of mistakes. But I don't even want to know what is going on in my neighbors homes. They can tell me if they want to. But I don't ask.

I had a neighbor once who was so nosy that she looked through her kitchen window into my kitchen window. I didn't know this until one day she brought me a bottle of dawn because "you are low on it." It was the exact kind and size I bought. Where as this was nice of her it was rather creepy and so I put up longer and thicker kitchen curtains so she couldn't do that anymore. And then to make it better.. we put aup a fence she couldn't see through as well.

When I once heard a rummor about myself that was totally untrue... I went around for a week playing that song I mentioned earlier from my car... and I did it loudly. I was a bit younger then. It worked... for a while.

Funny thing is... the people who were so busy minding my business didn't know what their spouses and kids were up to. They didn't have a clue. I knew because I saw... but I never said anything because... it wasn't my business.

until next time...