Happy Birthday Carol on August 26!

Happy Birthday Carol on August 26!

I (Ruthlace) am the happy mother of Carol (The Median Sib)! Carol is our middle child with a brother and two sisters older than she and two sisters and a brother younger.

Carol calls herself The Median Sib, but there is nothing middle about her except being the fourth of seven children born to her daddy and me. On a scale of one to ten, she is a ten! Never a four!

Carol was a beautiful baby and a very feminine little girl with blond curly hair, She was as beautiful and wonderfully precocious as her own son and daughter and the two precious little granddaughters she now loves to be with and often writes about.
Carol is more like me in size (four other daughters being short in height as was their paternal grandmother and other women in the family. Carol is five feet six as am I. Carol also shares my love for cooking. She is a fabulous and innovative cook.
Also, as Joan of Daddy’s Roses fame pointed out, Carol (and Joan) share my reserved nature so they may actually “understand me” somewhat better than their 5 more gregarious siblings.
However as we all know, none of us are limited by being “reserved” or “gregarious” but all of us are a combination of both with unlimited possibilities though the grace of Christ.

All those who have grown children know that they all think (whether they are reserved or gregarious) that they understand their parents only too well.

But I am blessed beyond measure to love and have a good relationship with all seven of my children and my five sons-in-law and two daughters -in -law.

Happy Birthday Carol! Carol is an outstanding teacher and writer and has a great “Erma Bombeck” sense of humor illustrated in many of her articles published in the Nashville paper a few years ago,

The first snapshot above shows Carol sitting next to me in our parsonage home in Ellijay GA. In the middle picture, Carol is the blond on the far left in a family picture...60's. The third picture is at Christmas, Carol is sitting between her Daddy and her older brother Terrell of Alone On A Limb fame in her paternal Grandparents' home.

In 2001 Carol (on the right) took time off to drive me to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore from my home in Georgia for TriGeminal surgery by Dr Ben Carson. Carol and I spent a few days of recuperation with daughter Janice and her family in Maryland. The picture shows Carol and Janice with me in the hospital.