Wednesday - OVER THE HUMP

To My Grandchildren:

I hope you learn humility by being humiliated, and that you learn honesty by being cheated.

I hope you learn to make your bed and mow the lawn and wash the car. And I really hope nobody gives you a brand new car when you are sixteen.

It will be good if at least one time you can see puppies born and your old dog put to sleep.

I hope you get a black eye fighting for something you believe in.

I hope you have to share a bedroom with your younger brother. And it's all right if you have to draw a line down the middle of the room, but when he wants to crawl under the covers with you because he's scared, I hope you let him. When you want to see a movie and your little brother wants to tag along, I hope you'll let him.

I hope you have to walk uphill to school with your friends and that you live in a town where you can do it safely. On rainy days when you have to catch a ride, I hope you don't ask your 'driver' to drop you two blocks away so you won't be seen riding with someone as uncool as your Mom.

If you want a slingshot, I hope your Dad teaches you how to make one instead of buying one.

I hope you learn to dig in the dirt and read books.

When you learn to use computers, I hope you also learn to add and subtract in your head.

I hope you get teased by your friends when you haveyour first crush on a girl, and when you talk back to your mother that you learn what Ivory soap tastes l

May you skin your knee climbing a mountain, burn your hand on a stove and stick your tongue on a frozen flagpole.

I don't care if you try a beer once, but I hope you don't like it. And if a friend offers you dope, I hope you realize he is not your friend.

I sure hope you make time to sit on a porch with your Grandma and go fishing with your Uncle

May you feel sorrow at a funeral and joy during the holidays.

I hope your Mother punishes you when you throw a baseball through a neighbor's window and that she hugs you and kisses you at Christmas time when you give her a plaster mold of your hand

These things I wish for you - tough times and disappointment, hard work and happiness. To me, it's the only way to appreciate life.

Written with a pen. Sealed with a kiss.

by Paul Harvey

and seconded by this Grand 'ma'

 

GOOD MORNING !

Happy WEDNESDAY ALL !

OVER THE HUMP AND SLIDING INTO THE WEEKEND.

I think that my 'SUNSHINE' babes are off to visit with DDIL#4's best friend today.  She will be a bridesmaid in her wedding this weekend.  That's why they came home for 2 whole weeks.  DDIL#4's friends wedding is this weekend, DS#6's wedding next weekend.  I may even get a chance to babysit while they go to some of the festivities of this weekend.  I'll love every minute of it...unlike most grandma's I hardly ever get the chance !

Today it's off to work again !

Have a very blessed and beautiful day !

***BIG SMILE***

MA