Guests of Barbara Vanatta on Sunday, for lunch, were Jeff, Jaylene, and Rawling Vanatta, and Jessie Strickland. They were helping Rawling celebrate his birthday.
Lu Autry Malone and Jaylene Vanatta went shopping in Nashville.
Jerry Snow of Nashville visited his mother, Martha Snow, Wednesday.
Recent visitors of Sue Arnold were Ronald, Barbara, and Adam Lawson and Corrine Melton.
On Tuesday Barbara Self’s visitors were Anna Turner and Inajim Moore of Lebanon. They went to Kilgore’s Restaurant for lunch. Barbara Burton visited later that day.
Sympathy is extended to the family of Helen Maxwell Carter, in her death.
Clara May Hawkins, Brenda Herman and Queda Ferrell visited LuDean Wright in Murfreesboro on Monday.
Don and Linda Poss visited Marie Walls, Sunday.
Mt. Herman Baptist Church had their birthday supper for March on Sunday night.
Congratulations to Lucy Young, her name was drawn on WJLE Birthday Club. She got a free dinner at Barbara’s Cedar House Restaurant. Faye Adkins went with her to help her celebrate.
Get well wishes are sent to Frankie Taylor. She is a patient in DeKalb Community Hospital.
Stephanie Rackley spent her Spring Break from school in Fla. She enjoyed swimming and being on the beach.
Gladys Curtis is at home feeling better, after staying  a few days in DeKalb Community Hospital.
I was thinking this week about some unusual sayings that I’ve heard over the years from parents while correcting their children.  I suppose that I have been guilty of saying some of them also; things that I would never, never do.
(Let me give some examples.)  Just wait till your daddy gets home.  You’d better straighten up and fly right.  Now you know exactly what is coming next if you don’t do as I say.  If your daddy doesn’t bust your hide, I will. 
If you know what is good for you, you’d better listen to me.  I’m going to beat your britches off.  You’re going to get a whooping.  Now listen, because I’ll really give you something to cry about.
(Then, there are some that are really, really interesting.)  I will mash your mouth as flat as a board.  I will cut the blood out of your back.  If I have to come to get you, you’ll get a paddling every step of the way.
Well, I guess we parents have all been guilty of saying some of those crazy words or something similar.   Our children probably never took us seriously and even laughed at how silly our threats were.
I think that as parents we should always think about what we say before letting the words come from our mouths; kind of like "Say what you mean and do what you say." I guess that most of us made a few blunders while raising our children, but the most important thing is for them to know they are loved while setting some boundaries on what they should be allowed to do.