When my nephew was about 2 or 3 we went to a steak house for supper. When the waitress asked him what he would like he smiled and said, "I want a Happy Meal please!".

My daughter, who is grown now, was always quite a character and had her own way of thinking about things. Still does. Just a few:

In pre-school they made pilgrims from paper plates and construction paper. The man had a tall black hat and a large white collar made from a plate rim. The woman had a little curved white hat and a collar, both made from plate rims. My daughter brought them home and said to me "We made a pilgrim, but I don't understand why we made this waitress"! (Perhaps we were eating out too much.)

Being left handed she struggled a bit with tying shoes, even though I am also left handed (but I think I tie right handed.) Anyway, in kindergarten the teacher had a chart and you got a gold star when you achieved certain skills, such as tying your own shoes. When I was getting desperate about the laces, I said "Don't you want a gold star?". Her response: "That's not what that is for. That's so you know who to ask for help." A born manager!

My son is 41 and a minister in a church. While hanging a banner, he fell across a pew on his back. When they were taking him to the emergency room, he was laughing and crying at the same time. Crying--because it hurt to laugh. Laughing--because he kept wondering if he was wearing clean underwear!!

My job as a mother is done!!!

My son, a couple of years ago, would call me from his Dad's and turn the phone upside down and then ask me if I was upside down.

This is one you'd had to be there to see the look on his face and the tone of his voice, but a couple of days ago I was taking my 5 year grandson to daycare. The quickest way to get there from where I live is to go through the campus and some of the student rentals.

We came to a stop sign and my grandson pointed up in the air and said "Papa, that ain't right!!!". I looked over to where he was pointing and on the porch roof of a house was 4 or 5 lawn chairs and lawn loungers where the students had been sunning over the weekend.