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Posted on 11/01/2008 12:28:05 AM PDT by JustAmy
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Amen!
My son’s wife (DIL) just sent this to me in email:
RETARDED GRANDPARENTS - (This was actually reported by a teacher.)
After Christmas, a teacher asked her young pupils how they spent their
holiday away from school. One child wrote the following:
We always used to spend the holidays with Grandma and Grandpa. They
used to live in a big brick house in Wisconsin, but Grandpa got retarded and they moved to Florida. Now they live in a tin box and have rocks painted green to look like grass.
They ride around on their bicycles and wear name tags because they
don’t know who they are anymore. They go to a building called a wreck
center, but they must have got it fixed because it is all okay now, they 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 hats on. 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, and go cruising in their golf carts.
Nobody there cooks, they just eat out. And, they eat the same thing every night -— early birds. Some of the people can’t get out past the man in the doll house. The ones who do get out bring food back to the wrecked center for pot luck.
My Grandma says that Grandpa worked all his life to earn his retardment
and says I should work hard so I can be retarded someday 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.
......PRICELESS.....
That is beautiful.
Thanks for the pings, I am behind on checking them out.
Hope you are well and happy.
What a nice laugh this morning.....THAT is priceless! Thank you. Yorkie!
“Daydreams are always a good thing!”
So true, and they are at least one thing the government can’t tax! The picture is always HDTV quality, and the programing commercial free. Not a bad deal for being free.
Yorkie, I was so glad to hear all is well with your son and family! I so enjoyed reading your “things to be thankful for” and I am sure we all feel the same way. It is unimaginable in just thinking about all the things people do lose in those horrible fires. All of us have all those special things that we think just can’t be replaced.
But escaping with our lives would be the greatest blessing. I am just grateful that people were saved. May God hold them close in the days ahead and reassure them “things will be alright”. We will keep them in our thoughts and prayers daily.
And the main thing as you mentioned....the most important things are our family and friends (friends online and off) that we must be thankful for all the time!
Thanks again, yorkie!
Well, a daydream shared is a gift of self to self and back
and friendships polished by daily contact are never at a lack
remember that each is the candle in the darkness to another
and over them our memories and hopes but gentle hover
I see an Anniversary is mentioned, such things are best not forgot and always best remembered.
As if I knew the day, or the Master’s will
or the work He’s set me to undertake to fill
I take the day as He gives it to me and be glad
for my gift to Him is to accept and not be sad
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So cute!
Thank you, granny..Hope all is well with you, too.
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Beautiful Welcome Back, Meg! :)
We’re Baaaack... again.
We’ve got to stop unmeeting like this. :)
Sheesh, Billie, could you have found a LONGER song?? Seven minutes is just WAY too long to be tighten’ up. LOL! But, I did enjoy Taylor Hicks after I collapsed on the sofa. ;-)
Oh, that is so pretty, MEG!
:)
I've just about gotten to the point I'm surprised when I check in if FR *isn't* down. I wonder what's wrong.
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