Chocolate milk...such a little gift...such a big happy thought.
Seeing my older kids shop for 48 cans of food to donate for charity at school and church. They kept telling me how much more they'd like to give but they couldn't. I told him that aside from distributing the food to the needed through his youth group at church, he can sign up to serve the meal. He will get such gratification doing that. He made me smile and, once more, realize what a BIG heart he has. Now I'm in tears writing about him...I couldn't ask for more. Just had to share.
Chocolate milk...such a little gift...such a big happy thought.
Congrats Laurie!!! I meant to say something to you last night about this!!! YEA!!!!
And yes, you were the last thing that made me smile today!!!!
oh, why am I so weepy........I guess it's the "change"..........and all of your stories collectively and I don't know how many kids I "mommied".......many would just grab me around the waist (when I had one) and tell me that they wished that I was their mothers.........and one girl, Tammie, had a terrible lisp and she drove her parents mad with her incessant talking and she grabbed me around the waist and with spit in my face emphatically told me "Mrs w I just loveths you......"A call last night from a dear, dear friend of over 40 years who lives in far northern Minnesota. She calls me every month on the 18th since Buck died. He died June 18th for those who don't know.
We talk and talk and she lets me cry as she listens and offers love and support. She's a treasure and I love her dearly.
She was never able to have children and that makes me sad. She would've been an awesome mom. Still, she taught school for over 30 years, so she got to "mommy" lots and lots of children.
Kades, I know exactly how it feels to be enamoured with your children... (today anyway!!)
My smile is the whole dinner hour. For once. They ALL ate... including the middle one that NEVER eats dinner.
They ALL scraped their plates after I only asked once.
Then, to top it all off, legogirl is most certainly her mother's daughter.
Bouncing into the dining room she stopped dead in her tracks just now. Scratches her head, turns to me and says, "HUM, I forgot what i was just thinking about!"
Then stares off into the other room.....
"Oh yeah, ICE CREAM mama!"
Some days can be so good....