Child's Play

I was watching some of the grandchildren play this week...

And caught myself thinking of a conglomeration of things.

Like how some things are hard...until you learn them.

How the toy's and play things have changed...from when my kids were little...and from when I was young and we played with a rock and a stick.

Ok, it wasn't only rock's and stick's, but by comparison it could have been. It seems that with children, learning is play and play is learning, and they find that with patience hard things get easier.

I can't remember the last time I played on a slip-n-slide, did a cart wheel, or even roller skated from sun up to sun down and didn't get tired!

Austin Power's now tells me when I have a txt message waiting,

I think of time alone hanging clothes on the line and doing the dishes by hand...almost frivolous...

almost.

And I am still learning things that are hard.

But at night...

when the breeze blows in through the open bedroom window...

I close my eye's and I am right back in the magical back yard of my youth, where more than half the neighborhood children were scattered about on lawn chairs, with blankets or sleeping bags, giggling deep into the night.

Falling asleep looking at the star studded heaven's spread like a silk canopy above us...

 So while toy's continue to change,

the lesson's learned really don't...

We can find joy and do hard things.

Smile and remember;

We're fool's whether we dance or not. So we might as well dance.

Catching Up With The Times

When I got married this is the kind of phone we had...

We got adventurous once and got it in white.

We also had a "party line" , I think our ring was two short and a long.

If you wanted to use the phone and someone else was using it, then when you picked it up you could hear them talking. and the same went for us, when we were talking, anyone on the "party line" could pick up the phone and listen in on your conversation and there was really nothing you could do about it. They were in the same town, but not the same house.

I believe that's a big part of why everyone knew what was going on in everyone else's homes!

Then phones started to change.

I remember the "brick" we all thought it was so cool to have a phone, as big as your leg, to be able to talk to people from some place other than home !!! Yea-you can't even imagine the shock that was!!!

Then one day one of the kids came in with this:

It does everything except the window's but will give you directions to do them right.

So the past few day's I've been talking to a very nice gentleman from our phone carrier. He has helped me get into the swing of things now that I've learned how to txt and think I could almost be on the verge of keeping up with the rapid-fire texting of teenage grandchildren.

I feel a little overwhelmed by it all at the moment

 but have every confidence that I will conquer the use of my

much simpler talk and txt phone.

Smile and remember;

We're fool's whether we dance or not. So we might as well dance.