Come with me to a third grade classroom
There is a nine-year-old kid sitting at his desk and all of a sudden, there is a puddle between his feet and the front of his pants are wet He thinks his heart is going to stop because he cannot possibly imagine how this has happened. It's never happened before, and he knows that when the boys find out he will never hear the end of it. When the girls find out, they'll never speak to him again as long as he lives The boy believes his heart is going to stop, he puts his head down and prays this prayer, "Dear God, this is an emergency! I need help now! Five minutes from now I'm dead meat."
He looks up from his prayer and here comes the teacher with a look in her eyes that says he has been discovered As the teacher is walking toward him, a classmate named Susie is carrying a goldfish bowl that is filled with water. Susie trips in front of the teacher and inexplicably dumps the bowl of water in the boy's lap The boy pretends to be angry, but all the while is saying to himself, "Thank you, Lord! Thank you, Lord!"
Now all of a sudden, instead of being the object of ridicule, the boy is the object of sympathy. The teacher rushes him downstairs and gives him gym shorts to put on while his pants dry out. All the other children are on their hands and knees cleaning up around his desk The sympathy is wonderful. But as life woul d have it, the ridicule that should have been his has been transferred to someone else - Susie. She tries to help, but they tell her to get out. "You've done enough, you klutz!"
Finally, at the end of the day, as they are waiting for the bus, the boy walks over to Susie and whispers, "You did that on purpose, didn't you?" Susie whispers back, "I wet my pants once too."
May God help us see the opportunities t hat are always around us to do good.

Busy! Busy!

It has been a busy 2 weeks! I'm in the mood to just vegetate today! Then work tomorrow and head to the lake tomorrow evening.
So lets see...what has been going on? I am officially on the Creative Team for Heather Roselli at The Digi Chick. Yeah! She is a great designer and has all ready sent two wonderful kits to play with....now to find a little spare time!





Saturday was spent in St. Joseph, Mo getting Jordyn ready for the wedding of her Aunt Jennifer. There was a lot of stress worrying about whether she would put the dress on and go down the isle. After all she is only 2 years old and has a mind of her own! But everything went great....she looked adorable! She ran down the isle....dumped the basket and ran back up the isle to her daddy. When Jennifer came down the isle...she yelled...."There's my Papa....Hi Papa!" At the reception Jordyn and Caleb danced and got down....so darn cute!


Last night we started the 4th of July holiday off early by going to the Royals game with Richard, Mary, Mom and Caleb. This was Caleb's first real baseball game! And first Fireworks show. The game went on an hour longer than it should have and the Royals threw it away after being ahead by 2 runs. They really need a pitcher with some stamina! The fireworks were well worth the wait! Awesome!

Final day of contest!

Well......Heather Roselli's CT contest officially ended at noon. There are 9 talented ladies anxiously waiting to see who will be on her team! We were prompted to make a 2 page layout using a darling kit "Boys Love Critters" I used my all time favorite pics of Caleb from last summer. These were taken after a rain storm in Richard and Mary's backyard.

Round Three!

I made it to the third round of Heather Roselli's CT contest! Happy Dance! Can't wait to get started on the next layout for the compitition! She is going to let us work with her new kit...."Boys Love Critters" It is so darn cute!
Matt and Jordyn came to Kansas City today. After work, I went over to Mary's and played with Jordyn for a bit. We played Mr Potato Head....Jordyn loves making the little characters. She is so darn sweet! I wish she lived in KC so she could come visit Gramma a lot! It's the best thing ever to hear her call me Gramma and give me hugs and kisses!

Toot!

I made it through the first cut! Heather Roselli is having a CT contest and I made it in....and this is my entry for the next round. Even if I don't make it all the way through...it is lots of fun!

Homerun for Uncle Matt

On Saturday, Caleb came over to play in the backyard. He brought his t-Ball set and we played "baseball". He would line up his ball on the t and say "hit a home run for Uncle Matt" or sometimes he would say "for Grandpa Jack". Jack would have loved playing with this little guy...it's times like these that I miss him so much and realize that Caleb and Jordyn are never going to know him. He would have been such a loving, playful, attentive grandpa. I will never understand why God took him away from us...I guess that is a question that will never be answered. It's been 6 years...but it is still hard to stay up sometimes. Ok the tears are starting so off to another subject!


I spent Sunday afternoon "paper-scrapping" for a change...not digi! I made 4 layouts...just need to journal...that is the hard part for me. Art is in Canada on his fishing trip, so I am on my own this week. I'm sure it will go fast...I can keep myself busy and Caleb is spending next weekend with me for 3 days! I'm sure we will wear each other out!

Made a couple of new layouts for the new Creative team I am on at 2Bscrapped...they are having a heck of a time. I am sure they are just as frustrated as me....



She is so darn cute...wish she could come over and play, too!

The 4400 started again last night! I love that show! I took a quiz to see which 4400 I would come back as...big-hearted healer.
And tonight is The Closer....I love how Brenda fumbles through her daily life, but still manages to make the bad guy confess. Love to watch her whoop up on them!

Camp Gramma

Camp Gramma

My new favorite writer....Jodi Picoult....continues to win me over. I have just started reading "The Tenth Circle" and it promises to be wonderful! She researches her material so well, providing me with a lot of food for thought. So far I am disturbed by what is going on with our teenage girls....thank heavens Mary is 30! and Jordyn is 2....
I had never heard of going to parties and playing games such as Conga or Rainbow. And the paperclips hanging on girls belts...ever wonder what that means? Well it isn't how many friends I have! More like conquests...one nighters...and the girls are doing this at 14! My concern is what are all of these "games" doing to our young girls self-worth and what kind of men will these boys grow up to be? I sure would not want one for a mate...

While at the lake, I finished reading "Cell" by Stephen King. He used to be my all time favorite author....and when I started this book I thought the storyline had a lot of potential. The world as we know it comes to an end because of cell phones....what a great idea! But I was so disapointed in the end....it was as if he was tired of writing the book and just quit! Not worth reading!!!!