This morning I had some extremely scary bad moments. My one-year-old granddaughter got locked into my bedroom. I didn’t have a key. Luckily, she was asleep and was not aware of my panic. Let’s just say when I couldn’t find the key I was panicky and when Grandma is panicky granddaughter is hysterical. I knew this was not going to help. I looked at the big sister of 3 years old and said we should say a prayer. Bless her heart, she was on it in a heartbeat. I take a big breath and said OK we have a great adventure we are going to do amazing hard things today. We did, we stomped through the snow, took the screen out of the bedroom door and we climbed sister climbed in and unlocked the door! For an instant, I was destined to have a bad day. It ended up being a few short moments of bad. Thankfully to a granddaughter that knows that she can do hard things, we are smart brave women! Someone gave me a book called 365 reasons for smiling in thought and pictures. It is by White Star Publishers. As I look for this book I realized

If you’re going to make it past 1st base in his life he got a show some grit.  My 1st impression at being a mom with all about kisses and the babies. I have always loved babies. They’re so cute and yummy and sweet. I just wanted to have my own to hold and love, kiss, and snuggle. When I had my 1st baby was born, I did just that. It is all I wanted in life. I gave him everything money couldn’t buy. We lived in a little farmhouse and not very much money. It didn’t’ matter, he was my joy, my life, everything to me. In the next 15 years, 5 more children came along. We still had a little house and not very much money. But we had grit. It was me and the kids against the world. I wanted more than anything for them to be able to be self-sufficient to be able to take care of themselves, to live better than we did.  My former husband was a dairy farmer. Therefore, we had all the milk, hamburger, we could ever desire. We grew a large garden. Sometimes you just craved chicken and ketchup because those are