Like Sunshine

This morning started off as a bitterly cold, dreary day,

but gradually brightened with sunshine, as the day progressed.

Sometime after 12:00 noon, my day got even brighter,

when my granddaughter Amanda stopped for a visit.

Amanda is in her second year of college, copy editor of her

college newspaper, and very good at creative writing.

Her creativity started at a young age.

This is the innocent young child.....

that wrote poems making fun of her gramma's cake!

Later in her young life she graduated to pulling

very creative pranks.

Late one night without my knowing it, she stole an

old stone squirrel from my flower garden.

I started receiving ransom notes through the mail,

along with pictures

of the threatened

and tortured squirrel!

Even though knowing,

that I thought it very funny,

she never let on,

so I was convinced it had been done by

my older grandson Dustin.

This went on for about a week and then Amanda slipped up...

she sent a photo with her baby sister at the bat!

Then the squirrel mysteriously reappeared one day-

^

.....covered in band-aids!

Amanda

Before leaving, Amanda mentioned she had finished reading

"Prodigal Summer"- so I gave her my copy

of "The Shack" to take home.

Amanda's visits are like sunshine.

and then.....

It wasn't an hour later and I had another visitor

to brighten my day. My granddaughter Katie came by.

Remember she is our expert confetti maker.

Katie is a sophomore in high school and has a babysitting

job right after school, but today it was canceled, so I benefited.

Katie is a sweet, bubbly, happy, young teenage girl.....

.

.......just don't get in her way when she's mad or driving!

.

Sunday is her birthday!

Katie

Katie is like sunshine to me too!

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Then-

Later my daughter Annette stopped by

to give me a book, so now I'm reading "Paper Daughter"

by M.Elaine Mar.

Annette is sunshine in my life too!

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