Monday, March 30, 2009

Sharing A Grandma, And A Prayer Request For A Little Girl

This daily blog thing isn't as easy as you think, ya know. I'm trying though. Because I keep my promises, dang it.

That, and I'm just plain stubborn. Ask Sm, she knows. She won't hesitate to confirm the fact either, at the slightest prompting. And at length. In detail. Great detail. Minute detail.

Then again, my tendency to babble and ramble is one of the reasons that I'm a pretty good blogger, so I suppose the command to 'watch the scenery, Dear' perhaps wasn't one of the better pieces of advice offered to me :oP

Suppose I should explain that tidbit.

Ok. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back when, before I was a Domestic Goddess, I was a Goddette. (Shup, Sm.) Roll with it people. Yes, I made up the term, Goddette. Deal with it.

Anyways, one fine weekend, I was invited to join Sm and her folks and go to her grandparents. We had a blast, although there was a bit of confusion on the way up as to why there seemed to be bits of misting rain every now and then. (Turned out Sm's Dad is a joker and was deliberately shooting off his windshield wiper fluid so it would drift back on to her windshield. We were teenagers, k? Not so much on the bright part? Hello? Hormones? ok? 'nuff said.)

So, there's me. Grand old age of 16? 17? New place. Never met the grandparents before. Feeling a wee bit uncomfy. So I do what I do best. Babble. Incessantly. Until Sm's Grandma, bless her heart, love her always, kindly reaches over, pats my hand, smiling, and quietly says, "Dear, why don't you watch the scenery?"

Understand, it was said with such a smile, and in such a tone, that you would have thought at first blush it was a compliment...took a full 30 seconds for it to register in my brain that I'd just been royally put in my place by a Master. The entire family roared with laugher, myself included.

One of the best weekends, if not THE best weekend I can remember of my childhood.

Thanks, Sm, for sharing your grandma with me that weekend. Give her my love, and tell her that I still don't watch the scenery as much as I ought to!

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A Mom on a message board I'm a member of has a little girl that I'd appreciate everyone keeping in their thoughts and prayers. Hannah went from having the sniffles on the weekend to being rushed to the ER with breathing issues. She was found to have a cancerous tumour today, and even the surgery is life threatening. If everyone would please pray, or do what you do for Hannah and her family, I would appreciate it, and I know they would too. For those of you who have blogs, please feel free to share Hannah's story on your blog, to let your readers know of her, so that they can pray for her too. She can use all the prayer she can get.

6 comments:

Debbie said...

I would be happy to pray for Hannah. What a scary thing to think something can progress that fast.

Unknown said...

Thank you so much, Debbie. I know that Hannah's parent's would appreciate that

Jane! said...

Okay, I'm rotten. I always have great plans to update my blog list and organize other parts of it and add some geegaws.
But I don't.
Until I'm publicly shamed into it.

We used to ask Omega if her mouth was getting tired. When she would say 'no', we'd say well our ears sure are. It took many years for her to catch the meaning. My ears are still tired.

Domestic Goddess said...

Does this mean I've made my way on to the Jane! blog list? *squeals and jumps up and down, grinning like a maniac, hurrying away to check*

smnthpt said...

Lol. That really was a good weekend and that comment was priceless! Update... Grandma is not well. She had a bad (I do mean bad)run with cellulitis. She was a little bit better when I spoke to her last weekend after she had been released from the hospital. I'll likely talk to her this weekend. I'll tell her you were thinking about that weekend. She will get a chuckle out of it.

Unknown said...

Do that. I think of her often.

In fact, tell her I'm making her a promise...she does her best to hang around a while longer, and I'll do my best to get a signed published copy of SOMETHING in her hands.

I can just her her pithy comeback now, "And just how long does that girl think I'm gonna hang around waiting for HER?!" lmao!!!