Hip, Hip, Hooray! There’s a baby girl coming in May and she is my granddaughter. There’s something about interacting with a baby that ignites something magical in all of us. isn’t there? They stare at us with inquisitive eyes and they are curious about everything that is happening in their world. We look into their eyes and we remember a time before, when […]
Have you ever notice how much energy children have? Granted, they’re flinging around bodies that weigh twenty to sixty pounds while you and I weigh… never mind, let’s not go there. But my point is that kids are indefatigable or another way to put it is that some times they seem to be incapable of being fatigued.I noticed the other day after a few hours […]
Kids are taking over the world and I’m not talking about all the doctors, policemen, politicians, and attorneys who seem to be getting younger and younger every year. I’m talking about children. Real children. More specifically, toddlers they could be your nieces and nephews, your grandchildren, your neighbor’s kids, or in some cases, even your own […]
Last summer I was performing one of my favorite grandmotherly duties, which is spoiling my grandson’s rotten! Their names are Jeremy and Jesse. This particular time we were eating ice cream on a hot summer day. It was a special treat, and they were enjoying it thoroughly. Suddenly, Jeremy scrunched up his little five-year-old face and started pounding […]
Having fun with our kids is like a slice of pie. Think about a pie not as a fruit pie, but as a pie of life with slices that define different, slices of family life. One slice is childhood, the next slice is the parenting years, followed by the early adult slice and the largest slice is the empty nest years. If we live out our average life […]
I often wonder what would happen if our children really knew our stories really knew our lives would they be surprised by our choices? Would they grieve our mistakes? Might our struggles, dreams, our failures and successes, somehow help heal some of the disappointments in their own lives? Would they or Could they learn from our mistakes? Some of my […]
This is a poem called “ Grandma Wings” author unknown. The other day when I read it I started to image what it would be like if grandmothers really had Grandma Wings. I hope that you enjoy reading this poem and my thoughts about it. “GRANDMA WINGS AUTHOR UNKNOWN” I wonder where you keep your wings? Are they in […]
“Kids Say the Darndest Things” was a segment on a television show called House Party. Art Linkletter was the host on CBS radio and television for many years and his interviews were never scripted, the kids said what they really thought. It could have been called ”Straight Talk.” One thing we can count on is that children are still saying the darndest things and […]
