Since it is Older Americans Month, I had planned to repeat a favorite column including thoughts by a grandchild, until the following poem crossed my desk. The author is unknown. Whoever wrote it must have had a sense of humor and hoped their adult children would appreciate their literary skills. 

When I'm an old lady then I'll live with my children and bring them great joy to repay all my life had for each girl and boy, I shall draw on the wall and scoff up the floor, run in and out without closing the door, I'll hide frogs in the pantry, socks under my bed. Whenever they scold me, I'll just hang my head. I'll pester my children, when they're on the phone, as long as they're busy won't leave them alone. Hide candy in closets, rocks in a drawer, and never pick up my clothes from the floor. I'll stuff up the plumbing and deluge the floor, as soon as they've mopped it I'll flood it some more. When they correct me, I'll lie down and cry, kicking and screaming, not a tear in my eye. I'll take all the pencils and flashlights and then when they buy new ones I'll take them again. I'll spill glasses of milk to complete every meal, eat my banana, and just drop the peel, put toys on the table, spill jam on the floor, I'll break lots of dishes, as though I were four. What fun I shall have, what a joy it will be to live with my children, the way they lived with me.

Author Unknown.

After reading the poem a few times, I couldn't help but ponder on who could have written the poem. As the baby boomers in our world are coming of age, could a baby boomer have thought of how to handle aging gracefully? 

Warm Thoughts: A good laugh is sunshine in a house. - Thackeray The best time to give your children advice is when they are young enough to believe you know what you are talking about. - Unknown. Have a great day and smile, 

Warm Thoughts from the Little Home on the Prairie Over a Cup of Tea by Luetta G. Werner 

Published in the Marion Record May 23rd, 1996

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