Category: Life with Children

“Grandma brought us water pistols!” My two sons screamed with wild delight And then they ran of happily To start their water pistol fight. I said, “We had water pistols, Don’t you recall what you went through When we almost drove you crazy?” Mom smiled and said, “Of course I do!”

Jerry’s mother told him That dark should hold no fear, “God’s given you an angel And he is always near.” But dark is just for monsters And Jerry liked the light. He feared to go out in the dark And always stayed inside at night. But it was Jerry’s evening job To shut the barnyard […]

It was first game of the season, There was excitement in the air. One team had much bigger players, It didn’t seem to be quite fair. I asked a lad from the small team If he had kept up with the score. He said his home team had zero, The other team had twenty four. […]

Everybody liked to tease Little Sam about his freckles; They liked to call him names Like Little Sammy Speckles. His Grandma saw him crying And asked why he was sad; He told her how the children Were teasing him so bad. She said, “I love your freckles. Each one’s a beauty spot. God loved you […]

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 […]