"OUR CUTIE" IS ONE!!!

December 20 of last year we had our First Great Grandson!! Yesterday we celebrated his first birthday. WHAT A CUTIE!!!!

Yesterday we were over to our daughter's home and Cutie's mother and father were home for the holidays, so we had a great day celebrating his birthday. Children are truly a joy to be around and see the world through their eyes once again. We made a game out of putting up one finger and saying "one". He got the idea and would put his finger up and we would clap. Then he would clap and smile. Of course, he didn't know that ONE meant that he was one year old.

Later on in the day we noticed it was starting to rain and freeze more on the trees. Our kids suggested that our granddaughter's husband (Mr. Wonderful-as our granddaughter calls him) could drive us home and our son-in-law would drive his truck so that he would have a way back. We were so grateful for this, as it truly was bad driving conditions.

Well you might of guessed, we had a fender-bender experience. We are so glad that "Mr. Wonderful" was driving, as he has been teaching "Drivers Education Classes" for many years
and knew just what to do. No--it wasn't his fault, as the other car didn't have his car under control and slid into our back bumper as we were exiting onto another road.

Since I am on the subject of "Mr Wonderful", I have to tell you a story a few years back.
Our daughter called one morning and gave me some prayer requests about her daughter.
These are the requests--1. She would find a Christian Soulmate (God's choice), 2. That he would love her dearly, 3. That our daughter and husband would love him and he would feel the same about them (this was just an added request), but not as important as the first two requests. I promised that I would pray with her about these requests.

Our granddaughter went with some Sorority close friends to a New Year's Eve party in Chicago
shortly after this. (Her best friend lived in Chicago at the time). She met her "Mr. Wonderful"
that evening. I'm sure this was no accident, but an answer to our prayers. He truly is a good Christian man and has a clear cut value system that is rare. Yes, we all truly love him and he shows that same love in return to all of us. Beside, he loves our granddaughter and is really a great daddy to "Cutie".

One thing that helped him to develop this value system was that his dad and mom had foster children into their home all during his growing up years. I think they said that there were 51 children that came to live with them, even though some of them were for a short period of time.
That is not counting 4 of their own children.

His mother had always wanted to run an orphanage ever since she was in high school and this was as close to that as she ever got. Her father was a medical doctor and the genes of "caring for others" were present. His mother and father met in college and fell in love and truly have been a loving family and has accepted our granddaughter like their own child.

For an added bonus, he is handsome, has a sense of humor, and very intelligent. Now when God answers our humble prayers, he adds even more than we ask or think.

Wisdom for the day--Invest your life in what pays eternal dividends.