Wednesday, August 27, 2008
I have a 4 year old grandson who loves to give gifts. We were at a birthday party for his great aunt, he was assisting her with her gift opening. When she unwrapped a gift to find a small, shiny red box with a gift inside, my grandson asked if he could have the box. Of course we thought it was because it was a pretty, shiny box. A bit later he returned the box to his great aunt telling her it was her present from him. Inside she found 2 stones and a nickel. She mailed him a thank you note telling him that she put the stones in her flower garden and was keeping the nickel as her "good luck" charm. He'll be elated when he gets mail from the mailman!!
This is August. My birthday is in January. Monday he came over with a big box ... my birthday present he says ... "because your birthday is coming up." Inside the big box was a smaller box and inside it was an old coin purse and inside the coin purse were 2 dollars, a dime and a penny. I asked him where he got the money (especially the dollars) and he said it was money his mom gave him for doing his work. I asked him if he didn't want to spend the dollars on something special that he wanted to buy and he replied, "I can earn more dollars, these are for you so you can buy something special for your birthday present." Aren't grand kids just the greatest!?

My oldest granddaughter just recently returned home from a 17 day tour of 7 European countries. She was one of 216 kids from high school bands who are called the Minnesota Ambassadors of Music who were selected by their band instuctors to make this trip. She fell in love with Venice and absolutely loved Switzerland. She brought me back a music box from Switzerland as a souvenir of her fabulous trip.

I have 6 other grand kids to brag about, but enough for today.