Month: January 2009

My Grandsons Said….

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The boys ate lunch with us a couple weeks ago. Halfway through his plate, Nate said he was done with his food and full. Not many minutes later, he asked for ice cream. \”I thought you said you were full?\” I questioned him. \”That was the good food part of me,\” he said. \”The dessert part is still hungry.\” !!

And then Sunday morning on the way to church, Phil asked me why my hair was short. (he already knows what he likes, i guess). \”I like my hair short,\” I told him. \”Well, you need to get a wig, so your hair will be long like mama\’s hair.\” His mama got a good laugh out of that one.

A.J. is a darling, but he throws fits…fairly regularly, actually. In the nursery Sunday, he got upset and threw his hands over his face and fell to the floor. The nursery was full, so everyone in there had been assigned a kid to watch. A young teenage fella, Jake, was assigned to A.J. (God bless him!). When A.J. hit the floor, Jake said, \”Get up off that floor and stop acting like a girl!\” A.J. immediately stood up and angrily said to Jake, \”I\’m not a girl; I\’m a big boy!\”

Today

Dave\’s mom moved into a new home. She\’s almost 80 and this hasn\’t been easy for her. One thing she did in this move is downsize, and she gave several pieces of furniture to Dave and me. This is a good thing for us, because 8 years of little boys in our home have pretty much finished off what furniture we did have. So I spent a good portion of today arranging furniture. That was fun, but it was also tiring and aggravated my arthritis.

A nice shower and some downtime on the computer, AND a couple of Tylenol…now, I\’m ready.

May your Sunday be blessed and inspiring.

Philip

Phil is the middle grandson. He is a little sweetie, most of the time. When I picked the boys up for church this week, Phil said he wanted to come and live at my house. It seems that one of his favorite toys had gotten broken and he was mad at the person who broke it, and felt that if he came and lived with us, his stuff wouldn\’t get broken.

I laughingly told him he couldn\’t come live with us. Jenni\’s boyfriend, D, popped his head into the room and suggested that Phil just go ahead and pack his suitcase and move in with us. Next thing I know, Phil is upstairs packing up a suitcase. He looked SO cute coming down the steps with his little suitcase–it says, \”goin\’ to grandma\’s.\”

Of course, he went back home after church. It was so sweet, though, and I have to admit that if I were a little younger, I\’d spend a whole lot more time with those boys.

Friday

The weekend is here. Dave and I have decided to try and spend one-on-one time with the grandsons, rather than have them all here at once. We are at the age that all of them at once is a bit overwhelming–the noise level and the activity level are off the charts! So tonight Nate is spending the night with us. Tomorrow night Phil will be here and then Sunday afternoon we will have AJ until about supper time.

We love these boys. They are precious, and we are blessed.

God is good.

Happy New Year!

Another quiet day at the Wood household. Dave and I slept until around 9 this morning, which is VERY late for me. We picked up number 1 grandson, Nate, and took him to his favorite place to eat (K&W–can you believe that?). While there, I noticed a little twinge in my \”gut\”. Having had three sick grandsons and one sick daughter since Friday last week, I got a bit worried, especially when all of a sudden the blood drained from my head and into my stomach and began a mighty big churning. We decided we should get out of the restaurant with all due haste. After I stood up and walked a bit, the feeling went away, and I came home and lay down.

I\’ve been taking meds for an ear infection and wondered if maybe that wasn\’t some of the problem. It may be. But for now, I\’m just sitting as quietly as possible, hoping not to be sick.

Isn\’t it funny how we do that? We know we are going to be sick, we know we\’ll feel better after we are sick, but we fight it. I have in the past–and I may again tonight–sat in a chair all night refusing to move and willing myself not to be sick.

I have to go to work tomorrow. It\’s the first of the month, and we will have MEGA orders for product to be delivered. So I really need to feel better by morning.

Happy new year, everyone. May this be the year…..