Category: Life with Children

It was take your son to work day.
Mrs. Jones took little Pete.
He liked his mother’s office;
Her friends were kind of neat.
There were fun things on her desk
Some candy mints and toffee.
One friend said Pete could go with him
To get his mom her coffee.
“We make your mom her favorite drink
On this counter over here.”
“Wow,” said Pete, [...]

His dad took him to buy a horse.
He watched him feel its legs and chest.
“When you buy a horse,” Dad told him,
“That’s two important parts you test.”
“You know that old friend you called
To come and fix Mom’s clothes dryer?
Mom said that she was thanking him
But I think he wants to buy her!”

My neighbor said she’d found a way
Of getting her son out of bed,
To get him up to go to school
Had been like waking up the dead.
Now he gets up at her first call,
I asked her how she managed that.
“He always sleeps with his big dog
I just throw in your yellow cat!”

She was the cutest little two year old
And she was smart as she could be.
She was playing with her tea set
And she was serving Daddy tea.
She was bringing cups of water,
While he was watching Evening News.
He smacked his lips and drank each one,
No way her Daddy could refuse.
I just thought that I would ask him
If [...]

The young girl asked her father
“Why do you always bow your head
Right before you begin to preach,
While the scripture is being read?”
“I ask God for a good sermon,
That’s something that I always do.”
“If you ask for a good sermon,
Why doesn’t he give one to you?”