Brittney, Kaylee and Lindsay
We hope they bring a smile or two
grandchildren, nieces, nephews, or students...here is something to make
you chuckle. Whenever your children are out of control, you can take
comfort from the thought that even God's omnipotence did not extend to his own children
After creating heaven and earth, God created Adam and Eve. And the first
thing he said was "DON'T!" "Don't what?" Adam replied. "Don't eat the
forbidden fruit." God said. "Forbidden fruit? We have forbidden fruit?
Hey Eve...we have forbidden fruit!!!!!" "No Way!" "Yes way!" "Do NOT eat
the fruit!" said God. "Why?" "Because I am your Father and I said so!"
God replied, wondering why He hadn't stopped creation after making the elephants.
A few minutes later, God saw His children having an apple break and He
was ticked! "Didn't I tell you not to eat the fruit?" God asked. "Uh
huh," Adam replied. "Then why did you?" said the Father. "I don't know,"
said Eve. "She started it!" Adam said "Did not!" "Did too!" "DID NOT!"
Having had it with the two of them, God's punishment was that Adam and
Eve should have children of their own. Thus the pattern was set and it
has never changed.
But there is reassurance in the story!! If God had trouble raising
children, what makes you think it would be a piece of cake for you?
Grandparents contribute a special relationship to a child that no one
else can give them.
They can always be counted upon to buy anything
you're selling ... from all-purpose greeting cards to peanut brittle
.. from flower seeds to cookies ... from transparent tape to ten
chances on a pony.
A grandparent buys you gifts your mother says you
don't need. A grandparent pretends he doesn't know who you are on
Halloween.A grandparent will put a sweater on you when she is cold,
feed you when she is hungry and put you to bed when she is tired.A
grandparent will frame a picture of your hand that you traced over the
brocade sofa in the Mediterranean living room.A grandparent will check
to see if you are crying when you are sound asleep. A grandparent is
the only babysitter who doesn't charge money to keep you.
A grandparent will believe you can read when you have the book upside down.When a grandchild says, "Grandma, how come you didn't have any children?" a grandparent will fight back the tears.
(through the eyes of a child)
After a spring break, a teacher asked her young pupils how they spent the holidays. One child wrote the following:
"We always used to spend the holidays with Grandma and Grandpa. They used to live here in a big brick house, but Grandpa got retarded and they moved to Arizona.
Now they live in a place with a lot of other retarded people. They live in a tin box and have rocks painted green to look like grass. They ride around on big tricycles and wear name tags because they don't know who they are anymore.
They go to a building called a wrecked center, but they must have got it fixed, because it is all right now. They play games and do exercises there, but they don't do them very well.
There is a swimming pool too, but they all jump up and down in it with their hats on. I guess they don't know how to swim. At their gate, there is a doll house with a little old man sitting in it. He watches all day so nobody can escape.
Sometimes they sneak out. Then they go cruising in their golf carts. My Grandma used to bake cookies and stuff, but I guess she forgot how. Nobody there cooks, they just eat out. And they eat the same thing every night, "Early Birds". Some of the people can't get past the man in the doll house to go out. So the ones who do get out bring food back to the wrecked center and call it pot luck.
My Grandma says Grandpa's worked all his life to earn his retardment and says I should work hard so I can be retarded some day too. When I earn my retardment I want to be the man in the doll house.
Then I will let people out so they can visit their grandchildren.
This page is for Brittney
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