"THE BIG BLACK BAG"

My dad and hired hands had come in for dinner (noon meal) and my mother had fixed a hearty meal for the family and hired hands.

Right after dinner my mother called my dad over and whispered in his ear. He quickly went to the phone and called someone and said who he was and told him "It is time".

It wasn't very many minutes later a car pulled up in our yard and a man got out with a "BIG BLACK BAG". He went into the bedroom where my mother was and just a few minutes elapsed and a cry came from the bedroom.

The man with the "BIG BLACK BAG" came out and told my sister and brother that they had a baby sister (ME). They were overjoyed and couldn't believe it! This man brought me in that
"BIG BLACK BAG". There were 2 eye witnesses to this and they were convinced he carried me in the bag.

I know you thought that "Storks" brought babies to us, but I'm here to tell you that I have two living eye witnesses and it wasn't a stork, it was the man with the "BIG BAG BAG".

I just wanted to set the record straight. That old fable about the Stork is all wrong. I know because I was there!

My mother had a hard time getting pregnant (a word that was not discussed in those days). She had one miscarriage and couldn't seem to have any more. She prayed a lot about this situation and read about a tonic (Lydia Pinkams) that people used to help them have children. They claimed there was a "baby in every bottle". What!!!!! I thought babies come from "Black Bags"
now I hear they come from "bottles"!!!! What gives? Oh well, she has always said that through prayer and Lydia Pinkams (I think this was an iron supplement), she had her 3 children. She was 35 years of age before my sister was born and I was born when she was 40 years of age. A brother was born between these two ages. She was married at 26 years of age and so she waited quite awhile before God answered her prayers.

Wisdom of the day--"Never give up in your prayers! God does answer our prayers, sometime he just wants us to Wait awhile."