Show A Little Kindness: The Picnic That Wasn't

Monday, July 29, 2013

The Picnic That Wasn't

It was going to be the funnest day ever, a picnic with all finger foods and lemonade at the park.

Thunder showers were predicted and happened, spoiling the day.

I was nervous to make finger salad, I should not have been, everyone liked it.

Plus we had chicken watermelon and brownies.

Happy indoor picnic!

" The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache. "

" I don't want to drive up the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails.

I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp.

I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children.

I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden.

I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder.

I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived"
~Marjorie Pay Hinckley