{"id":16619,"date":"2018-01-14T06:09:44","date_gmt":"2018-01-14T11:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougbittinger.com\/thoughts\/?p=16619"},"modified":"2025-04-21T01:56:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:56:37","slug":"grace-marcie-tail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/grace-marcie-tail\/","title":{"rendered":"Grace and Marcie On Your Tail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a woman who had a son named Timmy.\u00a0 When Timmy was in kindergarten she would walk him to school, a few blocks away.<\/p>\n<p>Halfway through the year Timmy said, \u201cYou don\u2019t need to walk me to the door, Mom, I\u2019m a big boy now.\u00a0 You wait here on the sidewalk and I\u2019ll go up on my own.\u201d\u00a0 So she\u2019d wait on the sidewalk and watch till her son got inside.<\/p>\n<p>The following year her son said, \u201cMom, when I start first grade, I want to walk to school on my own.\u00a0 I\u2019m a big boy now, you don\u2019t need to walk me to school.\u201d\u00a0 She agreed, but was worried about leaving him on his own so young.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/PineyMountainFoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/Grace-and-Marcy-Following-You.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-16620\" src=\"https:\/\/PineyMountainFoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/Grace-and-Marcy-Following-You-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>She had a friend who lived two doors down who was going to be walking her daughter to Kindergarten that year and the woman asked her friend if they would time their walks to and from school to allow Timmy to get out front by a half block or so and just sort of keep an eye on him without letting him know they were keeping an eye on him.\u00a0 Her friend said she would.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>About two months into the school year Timmy was telling his Mom about his day and mentioned that Grace and Marcy had stopped to pet a puppy in a yard they passed, so he came on home on his own.<\/p>\n<p>His Mom asked, \u201cWho are Grace and Marcy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The boy answered, \u201cThe lady and little girl that you\u2019ve had following me this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The mom was confused because those were not the names of her friend and the woman\u2019s daughter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, you\u2019ve talked to them?\u00a0 Did they tell you those were their names?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201dNo, but I figured it out because every night when we say our prayers you always end by saying \u201cMay Grace and Marcy follow Timmy wherever he goes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a woman who had a son named Timmy.&nbsp; When Timmy was in kindergarten she would walk him to school, a few blocks away. Halfway through the year Timmy said, &ldquo;You don&rsquo;t need to walk me to the door, Mom, I&rsquo;m a big boy now.&nbsp; You wait here on the sidewalk and I&rsquo;ll go &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/grace-marcie-tail\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Grace and Marcie On Your Tail&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[15,26],"class_list":["post-16619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-humor","tag-life-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21216,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16619\/revisions\/21216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}