What Makes the World Move

We had a heat wave over the weekend...just enough to start melting some snow, then freeze the slush. It didn't do well for Ms. Divine's health. Actually, I can't blame it all on the weather. Last week they had school 3 out of 5 days and two of those days that they had school were on 2 hour delay. During that week her friend Amber had a nasty flu bug. You would have thought with the amount of school they missed plus the frigid temps that Ms. Divine would have missed all the nasty 'bugs' BUT her friend Amber's mother decided to send her to school on Thursday...she wasn't well enough...she spewed all over one of her classes and her Mom ended up leaving work to come pick her up. Thus...Ms. Divine now has that nasty flu bug and is just not doing well at all. Sunday her face was red but since then she has been a shade of pale that I don't recall ever seeing on her before. For instance, for her lips to be colorless is amazing. The doctor gave her some medicine to help stop the vomiting but it didn't help last night. She is 'emptying out' in two different directions. poor baby!

When we lived in Milford, Ohio, the kids got a 'disease' that I had NEVER heard of before (apparently it is something foreign to Northern Ohio)...their cheeks turned a bright red and their arms ached and the bottoms of their feet hurt to the point that they could not walk on them. I was told by the school nurse that they called it "Slap Cheek".

These two pets here...Max the dog and Pete the Hamster...make me laugh!

Pete doesn't seem to be too afraid of Max even though he is a LOT bigger than he is. Max likes to put his paws up on the sand that Pete's cage sits on and watch Pete in his cage.



Pete will see Max there and go over and put his two front paws up on the wire 'bars' and stick his little whisker twitching nose up there. Max will push his nose closer until they almost touch. Then Pete will go back to his business and Max will get bored and leave.



The other night Pete did something that we still laugh about. He was busy nibbling on a seed log when Max came to watch him. He looked up at Max, reached over into his dish and picked up a corn kernel with his front paws then shoved it through the cage bars and dropped it. He watched while Max 'vacuumed' it up then he went back to eating his seed log. Max left.

Unfortunately with Max, once you do something for him or give him something, if he likes it, he will bug you until eternity to do it or give it to him again. NOW, every time he puts his paws up there to watch Pete, he will start his squeaky whimper because he wants Pete to give him some of his food again!

I have a routine that I do with him on mornings when there is school. I get up, let him out, then he comes in and I give him fresh water and some food. He will go downstairs with me to wake up Ms. Divine. Then he lays in his bed until she is ready to leave. I open the door out into the garage and push the keychain button so the back passenger side door opens, he hops in, I close it, get in the van THEN open the garage door. He likes to watch out the windows at the kids and cars when I take Ms. Divine to school. Then we come home, I pull in, close the garge door THEN open the back door of the van, he hops out and waits for me to let him in the house. He goes straight for the sliding glass doors so he can have one more time to empty himself before he gets back in his bed and snoozes for a couple more hours.

NOW, he wants to go with me EVERY time I go somewhere!

He reminds me of some people that just feel that if you do something nice for them once, you should do it ALL the time. And if you don't...WELL...there is a whole lot of nastiness heaped down upon your head! Suddenly, instead of being a nice person for doing something nice for them when you didn't HAVE to, you are the worst person in the world because you QUIT doing it! They can't be mean enough! I've run across lots of people like that in my life. It ALMOST makes you want to NOT do anything for anyone ever again! I feel sorry for those people. They never seem to get it...that they don't DESERVE to have everyone give to them all the time. That they should be thankful when others are kind enough to WANT to help and be nice.

I've had people reach out and do nice things for my family, or me, once in a while. I am always very thankful to them for putting themselves out and doing something nice. I don't EXPECT it to be done anymore beyond that one time. And sometimes, because I don't EXPECT and because I am truly thankful, they will help more or do something else nice. And if not, that is fine too. They are under no obligation. And I should not be disappointed if they don't keep it up.

Pete did something nice for Max. Pete is a giver. Max is a taker. I love them both equally. And that is what makes the world go around.