A Meal With Mrs. Rosie Lee Lewis

It's a running saga in our house that I don't routinely prepare meals for my family. Honestly, routinely is not the right word. Truth is I rarely prepare meals for my family. My analysis concludes that it's just not worth it - the girls eat like birds and while Heath eats like a grown man, he rarely appreciates the fact that there is a lot more to "making dinner" than simply standing in the kitchen for 20 minutes. It takes quite a bit of preparation, a trip to the grocery store (and all the trauma that comes with that experience), then the 20 minutes in the kitchen - next you move on to washing the dishes which is inevitably a daunting tasks with a family of five. Usually (on the rare occasion I have prepared a meal) I have to listen to tons of whining at the table about how nobody likes the food choices, etc etc etc. You know the routine - and, it's flat out not worth it. It's much easier, and typically cheaper, to pick up fast food. We can eat at Little Caesar's for $9.18 (pizza, crazy bread, sauce and a 2-liter), or we can get 5 sandwiches at Arbys for $5. We can get Sonic on Tuesday's for 1/2 off....

So, the next time someone thinks about saying something sarcastic about my failure to "cook a meal" I hope he remembers this article and the wrath of Mrs. Lewis:


Authorities: Wife whacked husband with frying pan



Posted: Aug. 18, 2009

Enfield, N.C. — An Enfield woman was being held in jail without bond Tuesday after Halifax County authorities said she beat her husband over the head with a frying pan.

Deputies responded to an assault call Friday morning on the 5000 block of Justice Branch Road and found paramedics treating James Lewis, 85, for head injuries. Lt. Stevie Salmon of the Halifax County Sheriff's Office determined that Lewis and his wife, Rosie Lee Lewis, 71, had argued over what she had cooked for breakfast.

The couple continued to bicker as Rosie Lewis cooked another meal, Salmon said, and the argument escalated to the point that James Lewis raised his cane as if he were ready to hit his wife. Rosie Lewis then hit him on the head several times with an iron frying pan, knocking him to the ground, Salmon said.

Rosie Lewis was charged with assault with a deadly weapon, and authorities said she was being held without bond because the charge stemmed from a domestic dispute.

James Lewis was taken to Halifax Regional Medical Center, where he received 50 stitches to close his head wounds, Salmon said.