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Never A Dull Moment By Evelyn Corrie Birkby
(excerpt from Kitchen-Klatter magazine, February 1958, p.10) "Surely the above phrase was written by a mother with a houseful of active, busy offspring. It should be tucked in beside "'There is no place like home ... absolutely no place'" "'This is the happiest time of my life, if I can just live through it!" and the like. I am the only woman in a houseful of men. (My dear friend Mary Ann wrote when I gave birth to my third son, "I've always wanted to surround myself with handsome men. Seems to me you've found the formula!") Living with a houseful of such 'men', big and little, is an engrossing occupation with many sidelines. Being a mother may begin with warming bottles and changing pants but it soon becomes involved in collimating telescopes, explaining sputnicks, finding milkweed pods to take to school, picking up constantly, and mending tears. If all the tears which have been dried were added together they would form a river. If placed end to end the radiance produced by tiny smiles would be blinding."
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