This was in my e-mail box today and although no one in my family is celebrating a birthday today, I do have a 7 year old boy at home. And if you have a young boy at home, chances are this will ring true for you as well.
Today is my mother's 75th birthday.
My kids had today's date burned into their minds and under no circumstances would forget their grandmother's birthday.
"Such nice kids," you say. Yes, they are nice but there's a little more to the story than just grandkids waiting in eager anticipation and expectation of their grandmother's birthday.
When we told them about a week ago that today would be their grandmother's birthday they instantly shouted out,
"That's the day Iron Man comes out on DVD!"
Iron Man - The Movie. Available at your local store... today.
What do you think they would suggest as a gift for grandma? God bless our kids and those of us with the privilege of watching them grow up and charged with the task of nurturing their souls.
It isn't the thing you do, dear,
Its the thing you leave undone
That gives you a bit of a heartache
At setting of the sun.
The tender work forgotten,
The letter you did not write,
The flowers you did not send, dear,
Are your haunting ghosts at night. read more...
It had been another exhausted day at work. I pulled into the driveway at home and slowly dragged myself to the front door. As I got closer to the front door, I heard a loud rumble at the bottom of the street. It was as if a one-car drag race had just begun. During this time of the early evening, there is plenty of activity on our street as people roll into home from work, children playing in the yard and dogs being walked...read more...
6/23/09 - SOMETHING TO HANG YOUR HAT ON-39 CENTS OF UNDERSTANDING A farmer had some puppies he needed to sell. He painted a sign advertising the pups and set about nailing it to a post on the edge of his yard. As he was driving the last nail into the post, he felt a tug on his overalls. He looked down into the eyes of a little boy.
"Mister," he said, "I want to buy one of your puppies."
"Well," said the farmer, as he rubbed the sweat off the back of his neck, "these puppies come from...read more...
Plato said that work should be play. Some airline employees have taken his injunction seriously. After landing, one flight attendant announced, "Thank you for flying Delta Business Express. We hope you enjoyed giving us the business as much as we enjoyed taking you for a ride." There's a flight attendant who knows how to turn her work into play.
She may have been the same one who, as the passengers disembarked from the aircraft, announced,...read more...
6/19/09 - SOMETHING TO HANG YOUR HAT ON-FATHER'S DAY MESSAGE In the faint light of the attic, an old man, tall and stooped, bent his great frame and made his way to a stack of boxes that sat near one of the little half-windows. Brushing aside a wisp of cobwebs, he tilted the top box toward the light and began to carefully lift out one old photograph album after another. Eyes once bright but now dim searched longingly for the source that had drawn him here.
It began with the fond recollection of the love of his life, long gone, and somewhere...read more...
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