Halloween Is Just Around The Corner

Halloween is one of our grand daughter's favorite Holiday's. She can't wait until it arrives every year and as soon as it passes, she will start asking how long will it be before it comes again.

She loves to pick out a pumpkin and to decorate for the day and to eat the candy that we get for the trick a treaters.

This year we went to Kroger's to pick out a pumpkin.

She had so many to choose from that it was hard to make up her mind for the one that she wanted and then she saw the mums and the other decorations. It almost became to much to comprehend at one time.

I asked her to turn around while she was trying to make up her mind, so I could get a picture of her in front of all the pumpkins.

She decided that she would wait until she had gone into the store and looked at all if the other Halloween decorations and outfits before she would make up her mind,

Of course they had more pumpkins inside for her to choose from, as well as candied apples.

She wanted me to take pictures of the festive decorations set up in the store to put you in mind that it was now fall and the Holiday's are all just around the corner.

She likes going to this store as it is closer to our house and smaller than the one we usually go to.

She is still small enough that she loves to be pushed in a buggy when she is with us shopping, so Grand Mother had the honor of pushing her through the store.

It didn't take long to reach the Halloween section where she quickly got out of the cart to check out everything in this section.

They had candy of every kind, holiday costumes and all types of decorations for the house and your yard. We (Poppy and Grandmother aren't into the decorating like they do at her house, but that didn't stop her from looking at everything.

I put on a few mask to try and scare her but she said, "I'm not scared because I know it's you (Poppy) under that mask.

Well it was fun trying...,

She found her a purple wig and a hatchet that she liked.

She wanted to demenstrate how it was used years ago...

I said don't swing it around in here because you could knock something off of the shelf, or worse yet, hit someone.

So she continued to shop through everything that they had for sale.

We finally made it out of the Halloween section and when we got to the frozen food section she comes running up to me and told me that she was guarding me to keep me from harm.

She let me know that the enemy was approaching (Grandmother) and she had to protect me. Aren't grand children the greatest.

As we went to check out we had to pass the Halloween section and of course she had to check it out again.

She wanted to not leave the store until she bought something, but again there was so much that she couldn't make up her mind.

Finally after deciding that she would settle for a pack of candy, she was ready to leave for the evening.

I know that days like this are "Special," and it won't be long and she will be grown up. By posting this she will have something to look back on and remember the special days she had growin
g up and spending time with her Poppy and Grandmother.

I Made It Through Another Week At School And It's Finally Friday!

I love school, don't get me wrong, but as the week progresses and Friday draws closer I get a little excited, Ok, maybe a lot excited.

I can't wait to see what Poppy has planned for this weekend. Will we be going to the Splash Park, or maybe McDonalds or the Mall or The Park, or the Zoo. I guess I will just have to wait and see, I got to see him on Wednesday and we went to McDonalds and I played with my friends and I promised them that I would be back on Friday. We were playing in our Girls Club that we had made at McDonalds.

Poppy asked me where do I want to go today and I said McDonalds, because I had promised my friends on Wednesday that I would be there on Friday.

So off to McDonalds we headed...., I'll tell you all about it later.

My Little Doggie

I can't remember how long it has been now since I started wanting a little puppy.

I know, they say people never change their mind about their desire between cats and dogs but I may be the first one that you will know.

I have always grown up around cats and even though I have loved them, it has been the other hand it has been hard for them to let me pet them and hug them because they only want to be touched when they want to be.

Now dogs, are  a different story all-together. They will let you hug them, rub them, feed them, play with them and they are like having a little friend with you all the time.

I asked my Poppy to get me a puppy after Pop got a new dog a few years ago. He had several dogs but they were all older and they would let you hung and feed them and pet them but they were to old to run and play. When Pop got Sky that all changed and we have grown up together these last few years and this has made me to want a puppy.

Well we went to the dog pound to try and find a puppy but all we found were large dogs that would not work out for me.

My Aunt has a small dog that is just the right size except that he barks all of the time. Now that is something that would would take getting used to.

Every week I ask Poppy if I can get a dog and he always tells me, "Maybe later."

MAYBE LATER, I want one while I am little not to have to wait until I am bigger, after all I am eight years old!! Doesn't that help in any way.

Well I got me a puppy sorta.., My Aunt Emily brought it over to me in a small carrying bag all of it's own.

The Oil Can

I'm just a little oil can
On the Masters bench I lie,
I'm happy and so thankful
For the help I can supply.

I cannot do important work
Like chisel, plane and saw,
But yet the Master uses me
To be a help to all.

The Master often fills me
Or useless I would be,
For I'm only a little oil can
As everyone can see.

The only virtue I possess.
You'll find it in the oil.
Which I convey to others
To help them in their toil.

I pour the oil onto the tools
At the touch of the Master's hand;
It makes them run more smoothly
As you can understand.

Author Unknown

He wants to have me near Him
So He can quickly use The oil
He has put within me
In the way that He would choose.

Little Things

In little things we prove our love to Jesus;
In little things He proves His love to us;
In little things He longs to see us faithful;
In little things He needs those He can trust.

It is the little tests that make the daily battle,
And little victories we can surely win.
If little in ourselves the Lord can help us
To be a little comfort now to Him.

It is the little foxes, so the Father tells us,
That spoil the precious vine, the tender grapes,
The tender little life committed to us
Where lowly we have entered through the gate.

And lessons in the Book are given
To help the little one upon the earth,
The little ant, the spider, and the locust,
Their little lessons teach us priceless wealth.

A little place to each of us is given
In which to faithful be while here on earth,
If we will fill a little place in Heaven,
Stand true to God who has begun to work.

Author Unknown

Welcome Second Grade

A new school year has started again and she is in the Second Grade.

She loves her new teacher and her classmates. Some of the classmates are her friends from the first grade and others are new to her this year.

She is excited and working hard each day to get an owl because with five for the week she get to choose something from the surprise box. They also have a jar and for everything that you do like homework and etc. you get a marble from the teacher and when you get 25 in your jar you get something "Special." It could be a longer recess, you get to read in class, among many other things.

The other day I was looking through her backpack and saw a picture that I had colored. I asked her why she was carrying it in her back pack. "Poppy, I take it and during the day whenever I need a boost I look at it and think of you and everything is ok." Ohhh.......that's so special.

A Visit To The Splash Park

Our town just opened a "Spash Park" this Summer. It is something that was needed in the community for the children to enjoy the hottest days of Summer and stay cool while playing outside.

When we told Chloe about it she wanted to go right then but as it was late in the evening she had to wait until the next day.

I could tell that she was going to enjoy it as soon as she got her feet wet when we arrived. There are fountains that come up from the floor to coll you off as you walk around. Their is a wading area around the edges so that you can keep cool instead of walking on the hot concrete.

As I set on the bench at the edge, she loved to come by and kick up the water to "keep me cool" as I sat there and watched her have fun.

There are several tables for families to sit at out of the sun and two large tents over two picnic tables.

In the middle of the "Splash Park" is a slide for kids 4-8 to slide down and it has water coming down the slide as you slide down. The Roof has water running off to get you wet as you walk past.

I was glad that we had thought to bring a couple of cups of ice with us so that as the ice melted we had some cold water to drink.

The Water "Jet Streams" that are around the edges keep the astroturf wet and offer a cool spray of water to play in. Chloe loved to weave in and out of these streams of water as she played.

I think sh really enjoyed the slide because she kept going back to slide down it. She told me later that this was an easy to cool down from the sun.

The lady in the black was watching her little son as he played and she didn't want to get wet as she watched him. As she was standing here waiting for him to use the slide the large bucket spray brimmed over and she got a drenching as she waited in line. I'm sorry, but it was so funny I had to laugh.

Well it is starting to get very hot and since the wristbands are good for the whole day, I think that we will go home and come back later in the evening when it gets a little less hot.