Fun Time Ice Skating

by Kay Heitsch

When I was in the 9th grade I lived with my Aunt Carmel and Uncle Fred in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In the winter Grand Rapids is cold and has a lot of snow.

Aunt Carmel liked to keep us busy doing fun things in the winter. We went sledding a lot and we also enjoyed ice skating.

As nature would have it Aunt Carmel was prematurely grey. At the time she had decided not to color her hair, even though she was only in her 30's.

One day we were all ice skating when some boys started to chase us around on the ice. They would grab our hats and take off with them. Aunt Carmel looked like one of us with her hat on. However, when these boys grabbed her hat and saw the grey hair they stopped cold.

I'll never forget the look in their faces as they apologized over and over. I smile every time I think of this funny story.

Aunt Carmel is in her 80's now and guess what? She colors her hair now and it's light brown, not grey.

The New Doll

by Kay Heitsch

One of my favorite Christmas memories is the year we gave our daughter Shannon, age 3, a new doll.

Shannon loved dolls and her favorite was a small Raggedy Ann doll she named, "Nanny." I could never figure out why she liked Nanny so much until the year we gave her a new doll.

This new doll did everything, unlike Nanny who did nothing. This new doll had eyes that blinked, when you gave her water in a bottle, she wet her diaper. But best of all she had batteries and when you would lie her down she would cry until you picked her up.

Shannon seemed happy when she opened the present and saw this new doll. I was excited to show her all this doll could do.

About 15 minutes later I was busy doing something when Shannon walked up. She had the doll in her little hands holding her up towards me. Now Shannon did not have a smile on her face. She was looking very serious as she looked at me with her big brown eyes and said, "Take the batteries out!"

Do I Look That Old?

by Kay Heitsch

Yesterday while I was out and about a checkout girl asked a guy if the woman with him was his mother. He said, "No." However, the woman in question overheard the conversation.

The woman in question walked up to the checkout girl and shouted, "Do I look that old?" She continued her rant as the people around tried to help calm things down by adding some positives remarks. Come to find out this woman was this guys younger sister. Oops!

I thought I may need to call 911 for help, but everyone went on their way without incident. I heard the "sister" say to her brother as they went out the door, "I think she must have been trying to hit on you!"

Winter Walk

by Kay Heitsch

I well remember a winter walk to school when I was a teenager. My cousin, Patty, and I walked to school. I lived in Grand Rapids, Michigan at the time. Winters are pretty rough there and still are. We had a lot of snow, but now we had freezing rain on top of it.

One day as we were walking to school, at least 10 miles. HA! HA!, Patty and I could actually walk on top of the snow. We were laughing and slipping and sliding all the way. All of a sudden Patty decided to walk on top of a snow drift. Down she went!  

I know you're not suppose to laugh when someone falls, but I couldn't help it. I started to laugh. Now Patty was laughing too. We were both laughing so hard tears were rolling down our cheeks. Then something happened we weren't expecting...we both wet our pants. OH NO!

We had to walk back home and change. We were late for school that day and never told anyone until NOW.

The Sunglasses

by Kay Heitsch

Before I went to Planet Fitness  I decided to stop over at Kohl's and use my 30% off on a new pair of sunglasses. I was HAPPY when I saw a pair I liked right away.

I noticed that the glasses didn't have a tag so asked a sales girl about them. I ended up at the service desk where they decided that these glasses must have been left by someone.

Another sales girl went back and brought up the most expensive pair of glasses they had and semi suggested I could buy the ones I liked for this price because they were similar. I declined as they weren't Kohl's sunglasses to begin with.

As I was leaving the store an elderly woman was sitting down waiting for someone. I told her what had happened. We both laughed that I ONLY wanted some item that wasn't even Kohl's.

All of a sudden this elderly woman asked, "What exactly did those glasses look like?" I told her. To my surprise she said, "I'm going to go back in the store and tell them that those glasses are mine! Then I'll come out here and give them to you." HUH?!?!

I started to laugh and said, "I don't think the Lord would like this idea." She started to laugh too and agreed. Then I added, "But I think the Lord is smiling that we're having fun tossing around the idea. smile emoticon

Make Up

I was putting my make up on in the bathroom as my grandson, Noah, watched intently. When I was just about finished he said, "Now paint my face, Oooma."

Bathtub

After getting our four year old grandson, Eli out of the bathtub I was putting lotion on his back. As I rubbed in the lotion he whispered, "Oooooh, dat's da spot."

Your Feel Good Station

I was driving in the car. On the radio was the old song, "You're no good, you're no good, your'e no good, baby you're no good." I was singing along because, of course, I knew the song. smile emoticon After the song ended the DJ said, "We're your "feel good" station." I had to laugh as they just played, "You're no good!" In an odd way I did feel good singing along with that oldie! ~ heart emoticon ~

You're Who?

by Kay Heitsch

We've been getting estimates on doing some outside painting. A very nice guy came yesterday. He told me he would send an e-mail with the estimate. Before the email arrived I went online and wrote a POSITIVE report to the company about him. Tonight when I looked at the email estimate I noticed that this guy was the Owner. No wonder he's in charge! ~ heart emoticon ~