Heart Hope by Olga

Some children are just naturally funny. Griffin is one of those; he cracks me up. One morning on his recent visit to Colorado he appeared in our bedroom with bedhead and four pacifiers in his mouth...four. Most mouths are not big enough for two, but he was able to fit all four into his, including a girlie pink one. The question became why? Why would he want or need four? He sleeps with all of them each night using them one at a time exchanging them out. When one gets too hot or too wet or too something else, he pulls it out and goes on to the next one. It was complicated to me...one would have been much easier to keep up with and to manage, but what do I know? Our world has become too complicated also. We have excess everything in this country. We have too many gadgets, too many clothes, too many TVs, too many cars, too many bedrooms, too many ________ (you fill in the blank). All of these “things” distract us from enjoying the most important things people, relationships, ...

Today we took a “field trip” to Denver. The main function of the trip was to take my son-in-law, Billy, to the airport, but my daughter, Margaret along with the kids, Will and Molly decided that it would be fun to go along and stop at the Museum of Science and History to check out exhibits for the dinosaurs, the Indians and the animals native to Colorado. Of course, just as we were pulling into Denver, Molly fell asleep for her afternoon nap, which put a damper on the original plans, so plan B went into action. Billy and Will went in to see the displays while Margaret and I waited in the car for “Sleeping Beauty” to wake up. At five years of age, Will is very inquisitive, so he and his dad had some fun daddy/son time with Will asking hundreds of questions and Billy doing his best to answer each of them. They scurried from exploring the enormous dinosaur skeletons to see the scary mounted bears, mountain lions and wolves while we waited in the car. When Molly finally got up from her nap...