SHE FOUND IT!!!

Many of you know that we have been praying that our youngest daughter find a rented textbook that is due back in December.  It disappeared when she was moving from one apartment to one that is much cheaper, but nowhere near as convenient for her. 
Many of you also know that we mailed her social security card to her and it disappeared in the mail.
Well, she found the book AND she finally got her social security card in the mail. THANK YOU, JESUS!!
God is good.  Now, if He will just intervene to keep people from taking money out of her bank account without authorization, she will be good to go. 

Thank you all for your prayers.

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One Proud Gindy

One Proud Gindy

Tonight I went to see a play called Grandpa’s Bedtime Stories.  It was a great play.  The cast and crew seemed to have a great deal of fun.

This play is about a grandpa telling his four-year-old granddaughter a fairy tale.  Grandpa seems to get his stories a bit mixed up.  The entire play was great.  It started with my youngest daughter, Maggie, playing Little Miss Moffit.

Little Miss Moffit sat on her box eating her curds and whey.  Actually, she turned up her nose at the curds and whey.  Along came a spider played by my favorite of the cast other than my two daughters, David.

I always enjoy watching David act because he really seems to get into the part he is playing.  During their Christmas performance of a radio play version of It’s A Wonderful Life, David played the sound effects guy and was very funny at it.

Back to our play.  Little Miss Moffit was not frightened by the spider at all.  She smacked him on the back of the head and he ate the curds and whey, which made him sick to his stomach. 

Maggie was supposed to take charge of the whole spider situation and she did very well with it.  I am surprised she did not stomp the spider in the end. 

Grandpa later messed up the whole tortoise and hare story so that a tortoise races a fox and the tortoise always wins by running much faster than the fox. 

The tortoise and fox ask the audience who is telling the story and, of course, all the kids in the audience yell “Grandpa”.  The tortoise and the fox go to have a talk with grandpa and tell him he has it all wrong.

Grandpa starts to tell another story.  This time about a king who is celebrating the birth of his daughter, the princess.

While he is celebrating, a wicked witch played by my oldest daughter Whitney, appears and takes the baby princess prisoner.  The wicked witch tells the king he can have his daughter back if he pays her a million tons of gold.

Since, according to the story, there is not a million tons of gold in the world, the king cannot pay the ransom for his daughter and the wicked witch takes the princess back to her castle.

Later, a giant played by my youngest daughter Maggie appears.  It seems the giant actually resembles a hobbit in size, but he is a giant none the less.

There is a period of time that both my daughters, Maggie and Whitney, appear on stage together.  The witch offers to make the giant a real giant if he will just stay and help protect her castle and all its contents.  The contents include the now much older princess.

There is a point in time where the witch casts a spell on Red Riding Hood and freezes her.  The poor child behind us kept repeating that “Red Riding Hood is dead.”  The poor child kept this up until the wolf carried Red Riding Hood off stage.

Soon Prince George, played by Maggie’s friend Issac, along with Dachshund, played by David, appears on the scene.  The giant and the dragon, played by Maggie’s friend Roy, fight it out with Prince George and Dachshund  using swords on stage.

The audience is going wild and really is whipped into a frenzy when the actors take their fight to the aisles of the theater.  The little children in the audience are going wild. 

In the end, Grandpa and all the “good guys’ gang up on the witch, the giant, the dragon and win out.  During part of this confrontation, the dragon finds himself locked accidently in the dungeon.

Maggie and Whitney both seemed to truly enjoy themselves while playing their parts.  It seemed that the whole cast and crew had a great time with this play.  The audience really enjoyed it.

One of the nicest things about the whole evening is that the theatre department reserved the two seats closest to the door for my wife and me.  This was particularly important because due to health issues I am not supposed to walk.  Thank you Greg, Sam, and the whole theatre department. We really enjoyed the play.

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A Hard Play

Wow! Last night I watched the hardest play I have ever seen in my life. Anyone that knows me knows I don’t like sad movies. I can’t watch Penny Serenade with Cary Grant and Irene Dunne. It is too sad. The little daughter dies at a very young age.

Last night my two daughters Laynie and Maggie took part in a play called Anatomy of Gray. Laynie, whose real name is Whitney, played the part of Belva Collins.

Belva dies in the play and, after she dies, becomes basically a symbol of death. When other cast members die, Belva comes on stage with her hair in a frighteningly scary style. It is backlit in such a way that she looks like a ghost and she is carrying a flower.

When Belva was dying on stage it took every ounce of my strength to stay seated in the audience. The daddy in me wanted to snatch her off the stage and head for an ambulance. The ambulance headquarters is just a few blocks up the road and this guy with only ¾ of his right foot could walk it in no time.

It made me think, what if Laynie is ever in a play where some guy is hurting her? Am I going to be able to restrain myself?  Will this big redneck whoop somebody before he realizes that it is only a play?

Maggie was part of the stage crew and she spends the play swinging around in the catwalk and helping with fast costume changes. She also births a baby backstage.

Funny thing, Wharton County Junior College seems to have at least one shoe fall from out of nowhere each semester. Maybe this will become a running gag with them. When will the next shoe drop?

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Soldier Tames a Lightning Storm

Soldier Tames a Lightning Storm

© 2005 David E. McClendon Sr

One night as Davey was sleeping it started to rain. It was a huge storm with very loud thunder and terribly bright lightning. The storm was so loud it woke Davey up. He sat up in bed and grabbed his stuffed lion, Leo. Leo also makes a great pillow by the way.

Davey says to Leo, "This storm really has me scared."

Leo says, "Don't worry, Davey, lightning is just a lot of electricity moving from cloud to cloud and from the clouds to the ground and sometimes from the ground to the clouds."

Davey says "Well, it sure makes a lot of noise."

Leo says to Soldier, "Hey, Soldier, are you awake?"

Soldier answers, "Yes, I am awake. A Soldier is always on duty."

Leo says, "Soldier, can you do anything about this lightning?"

Soldier answers, "It isn't likely that the lightning will hurt us if we stay in the house and don't touch anything electrical like televisions or telephones and if we don't touch any pipes or plumbing like the sink while it is lightening."

Davey says, "Well, I won't do any of those things but is there anything else you can do?"
Soldier says, I am always here to help you. So he goes outside and makes a great big fan out of newspapers.  He takes the fan and starts waving it back and forth. He waves it so hard it blows the storm away. It blows all the way out to sea.

While it is out over the ocean it rains out all the rain in it and gets smaller and smaller. It finally gets so small it disappears.

Maggie and the Wild Animals

Davey and Maggie Stories

© 2005 David E. McClendon Sr

Davey and Maggie are brother and sister. The get along most of the time. They have a group of friends to help them whenever they need help. These friends are:

Chocolate: Maggie's trusty teddy bear who is always there for her.
Dottie: A trusty elf toy in a green suit with white polka dots.
Leo: Trusty stuffed lion.
And
Soldier: A stuffed solider toy. Soldier is a Russian soldier who has made friends with the Green Berets and the 82nd Air Born.

Together they make a great team.

Maggie and the Wild Animals

© 2005 David E. McClendon Sr

One day Maggie was pretending she was walking in the woods. (Maggie really knows that children should not go anywhere without a grown-up, even if they have their trusty toy friends with them).

All of a sudden she hears a sound in the bushes. Then she sees that the sound is being made by a great big wolf.  The wolf says to Maggie "Where are you going little girl?" Maggie says, "I am just out walking through the woods looking at all the pretty flowers and trees."

The wolf says, "I am going to eat you up and your little bear friend too."

About that time Chocolate speaks up and says, "You can't hurt her, she's with me."

The wolf says, "You are too small to do anything."

Now what the wolf did not know was that Maggie and Chocolate were not alone. Just behind them

and just out of sight were Davey and his group of friends, Leo, Soldier, and Dotty.  While the wolf was talking to Maggie and Chocolate, Davey and his friends had managed to surround the wolf.

Soldier spoke up and said, "We may be small but there are a lot more of us than there are of you." The wolf looked around at the group and laughed. He said, "What can you guys do to me?"

While he was asking, Leo was busy throwing a rope around the wolf. Dotty was calling the local animal shelter and Soldier was getting a baseball bat to hit the wolf with in case he tried to get free.

Chocolate said, “We may be small but when friends stick together we can accomplish anything.”

The animal shelter came and took the wolf out to a great big forest and turned him loose. There he could hunt and play and not hurt any children or their friends.