These Things I Wish for You

We tried so hard to makethings better for our kids that we made them worse. For my grandchildren, I’d know better.

I'd really like for them toknow about hand-me-down clothes and home-made ice cream and leftover aion account meatloaf.I really would.

My cherished grandson, Ihope you learn humility by surviving aion money failure and that you learn to be honesteven when no one is looking.

I hope you learn to makeyour bed and mow the lawn and wash the car - and I hope nobody gives you abrand-new car when you are sixteen.

It will be good if at leastone time you can see a baby calf born, and you have a good friend to be withyou if you ever have to put your old aion power leveling dog to sleep.

I hope you get a black eyefighting for something you believe in. I hope you have to share a bedroom withyour younger brother. And it is all right to draw a line down the middle of theroom, but when he wants to crawl under the covers with you because he isscared, I hope you’ll let him.

And when you want to see aDisney movie and your kid brother wants to tag along, I hope you take him. Ihope you have to walk uphill with your friends and that you live in a townwhere you can do it safely.

If you want a slingshot, Ihope your father teaches you how to make one instead of buying one. I hope youlearn to dig in the runescape money dirt and read books, and when you learn to use computers,you also learn how to add and subtract in your head.

I hope you get razzed byfriends when you have your first crush on a girl, and that when you talk backto your mother you learn what Ivory soap tastes like.

May you skin your kneeclimbing a mountain, burn your hand on the stove and stick your tongue on afrozen flagpole.

I hope you get sick whensomeone blows smoke in your face. I don’t care if you try beer once, but I hopeyou won’t like it. And if a friend offers you a joint or any drugs, I hope youare smart enough to realize that this person is not your friend.

I sure hope you make timeto sit on a porch with your grandpa or go fishing with your uncle. I hope yourmother punishes you when you throw a baseball through a neighbor’s window, andthat she hugs you and kisses you when you give her a plaster of pared mold ofyour hand.

These things I wish for you-- tough times and disappointment, hard work and happiness.