(Taken from papers written by a class of 8-year-olds)
Grandparents are a lady and a man who have no little children of their own. They like other people's.
A grandfather is a man, & a grandmother is a lady!
Grandparents don't have to do anything except be there when we come to see them.
They are so old they shouldn't play hard or run.
It is good if they drive us to the shops and give us money.
When they take us for walks, they slow down past things like pretty leaves and caterpillars.
They show us and talk to us about the colors of the flowers and also why we shouldn't step on 'cracks.'
They don't say, 'Hurry up.'
Usually grandmothers are fat but not too fat to tie your shoes.
They wear glasses and funny underwear.
They can take their teeth and gums out.
Grandparents don't have to be smart.
They have to answer questions like 'Why isn't God married?' and 'How come dogs chase cats?'
When they read to us, they don't skip. They don't mind if we ask for the same story over again.
Everybody should try to have a grandmother, especially if you don't have television because they are the only grownups who like to spend time with us.
They know we should have snack time before bed time, and they say prayers with us and kiss us even when we've acted bad.
A 6-YEAR-OLD WAS ASKED WHERE HIS GRANDMA LIVED. ''OH,'' HE SAID, ''SHE LIVES AT THE AIRPORT, AND WHEN WE WANT HER, WE JUST GO GET HER. THEN WHEN WE'RE DONE HAVING HER VISIT, WE TAKE HER BACK TO THE AIRPORT.'' GRANDPA IS THE SMARTEST MAN ON EARTH! HE TEACHES ME GOOD THINGS, BUT I DON'T GET TO SEE HIM ENOUGH TO GET AS SMART AS HIM!
It's funny when they bend over; you hear gas leaks, and they blame their dog.
My daughter sent me a text last night with a picture of this little guy that said "meet my new baby". Of course I thought... she has gone and bought a MONKEY! She already has two lizards! So! what am I suppose to think??? Come to find out...Josh has a friend that works at the Safari park near us and is babysitting this little four week old baby for the week-end. Now that I know that he is not staying...I can say "HOW CUTE!"
The "Hopper Family" about 1938.
I am of this young man of ours ;-)
member the Rubik's Cube from when we were kids??? 
This Friday my favorite thing is this picture my daughter gave me for Christmas. It's it the most darling thing??? The pictures were taken outside the Hickory House where we had Thanksgiving dinner and we were both being "Silly". Justin's sweet lady, Kierstin, took the pictures so I never saw them until I opened the present with the frame in it. Do I need to tell you how much I love it! and the "young girl" in it???
Did some new scrapbooking pages the other day. I'm not sure what this yellow one of Josh is suppose to be but it turned out to be very different. I took the yellow color from his hat and just kept putting in layers of this and that. One of his lady friends straighted out all of his curles in his hair. He wanted to know what I thought about it.
Justin turned 19 a few days ago and we had his Birthday party over the week-end.
I got up this morning to SNOW!
Josh spent Friday with us since he was out of school for some kind of teachers meetings. He was checking out his "myspace" when he came across instructions to make a "box of your friends". He asked me what it was so we clicked on it and this page came up that you can print of your friends. I told him to try it so he printed it out and this is what he came up with. Kinda cute except my picture is not! it's kinda blurry :-)
