HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!!!

Today it didn't rain all day, although it was forecast to do so.  Actually, it was just really cloudy and threatened to rain, but never really did.  So, as is our usual routine on the 4th of July, we went to the Greenback parade.  It is so typically small town America that we just love it.  My husband and our grandson were going to decorate his jeep and drive it in the parade, but, because of the rain forecast, we decided to just be spectators and chase for candy in the streets.  Cade was just as happy to do that anyway.  Here are some pics:

This is Norm's cousin "Blue" on a motorcycle he built.  He's quite a character.

 

Lots of kids decorated their 4-wheelers.  This little boy is about to out-grow his!

 

Cade's waiting for the parade to start.

OUR OLDEST GRANDSON TURNS 13

We went to Mt. Juliet this week-end to celebrate our oldest grandson, Benjamin, turning 13 - a true teenager now!   His football team was taking part in a Jamboree.  Actually, he turns 13 this coming week, but since school has already started, his family celebrated this week-end.  He's such a great kid, and he was our first, and only, grandchild for over 6 years.  He calls us "Grammy" and "Papaw", and we just thought the sun  rose and set with him when he was a little guy.  Now we have three more grandchildren, and everyone of them is just as special.  What does the world hold for the children of today?  I pray that he is prepared to battle the temptations and disappointments of the teen years and chooses his friends carefully.  Benjamin plays football, but right now he is mostly warming the bench, and I know he longs to be out on the field.  But we must keep our mouths shut, and let things work out as they will, when what I'd really like to do is throttle the coach until he gives all the boys a chance to play.  It was a jamboree, and he could have done that.  Those are the kinds of disappointments that he has to learn to deal with, I guess.