LAFOLOT

Feeling the love…

On my way to singing the music for a Sunday service UNITY Church in Palymra, PA (just outside of Hershey, PA) – I spotted a ROBIN!!! hopping around in a stream along with some starlings! What a thrill! Spring is just around the corner!

What a welcome relief after two weeks of 18 inches or more of snow! We’re expecting another 3 to 6 inches Monday and Tuesday; but that’s a ‘walk in the park’ after the dumploads we’ve received!

So if the Robin’s are feeling it is safe to come back to the area, I’m ‘feelin’ the love!’ ahahaha on Valentine’s Day!

I love singing at this Palmyra, PA Church because they are so warm and receiving of my music! I sang: ‘Perhaps Love’ by John Denver and ‘Love’s Divine’ by SEAL – both beautiful songs about giving, receiving and accepting/opening one’s self to love!

I felt like the moment in the GRINCH Christmas Special where it notes: ‘His heart grew so many times bigger, that day…” – because of the warm compliments and sharing of how the congregants felt hearing me sing! I felt like my heart was swelling with love and there was a golden glow radiating around me! I allowed myself to ‘FEEL THE LOVE’. One woman said she enjoyed hearing me sing; because my songs are personal and I share how they have impacted or express my own life experiences. THAT made me smile!

So here’s a plug for ‘Giving the GIFT of a Compliment’ as noted in Steve Wilson’s ‘Good Hearted Living’ principles.

During the service, a little boy didn’t want to leave his mom’s side to go to the Chidren’s Sunday school event. So, I gave him one of my Smiley Face LAFOLOT bookmarks and a popsicle stick with the words: ‘Reflect a Smile’ written on it along with a little round mirror glued to one end. It’s my latest promotional item to promote my talk called: REFLECTIONS

After the service, I headed out to lunch. The booth I was sitting in had an ‘open window’ looking into another booth. At one point, a toddler’s grandmother had corrected the little girl who was trying to get her hands on the salt and pepper shakers. I handed one of my bookmarks and Reflection popsicle sticks through the window opening into the other booth, for the grandmother to give to the little girl. A bit later, the little girl started to play ‘peek a boo’ with me into my booth. Guess she was: ‘Feeling the love!’ HA HA

Then, off to go grocery shopping. I keep my grocery list in my head by making up words out of the first letter of each item needed. I get a kick out of making up silly words. Today, it was: B BLAND ;o)

B=Berries (Cranberries)
B=Bananas
L=Litter (cat litter)
A=Apples
N=Nuts (slivered almonds)
D=Dressing (Salad dressing)

So – as I go shopping (something I don’t enjoy) I have to laugh or smile due to the silly phrase or words I make up to remember my grocery list! Guess I’m ‘saving a tree’ in the process as well as exercising my brain cells!

Then, on to fill up my gas tank, which was great because I had earned the 100 (plus) shopping points from the grocery store which got me 10 cents off per gallon (since the store sells gasoline, too!)

Due to the cold winds howling by the gas pumps (and, me not having worn ear muffs or brought a scarf) – I was standing there using my: ‘PORTABLE EAR MUFFS’ aka holding my gloved hands up to my ears to keep them warm! This made a man, who was putting air in his tires, look over and laugh at the silly pose I was striking at the gas pumps!

On my way home, I was sitting at the long traffic light, caught a young boy in an SUV looking over at me. I put on my clown nose and looked back over, he turned, saw me and tapped his mom on the shoulder. She looked over and started to laugh – just as their turning lane light changed.

So, for Valentines Day, I guess you could say I was ‘Feeling’ and ‘Sharing’ the LOVE!

This has been a series of HA HA Helen of LAFOLOT moments…
thank you very much!

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Ha Ha Helen … living in the moment..

I just LOVE talking to toddlers; or should I say ‘let them talk AT me, ’cause I have NO clue what they are saying!’

I was at my favorite Thai Palace restaurant this evening. There was only another couple there with their two kids.  I like sitting off in one of the ‘warmer’ rooms – away from the cold windows.  Hence, older toddler/boy decided to allow his Spider Man automatic vehicle into the room where I was dining.

With no one else around, I just started talking/playing with him. His toy vehicle – with Spider Man at the wheel – was slowly making its way across the room towards the restrooms…

I was stating boldly – Go! Spider Man! Go! Go! Go!
This caused the little boy to start to Chatter away at me in Toddler Talk.  I have no clue what he was saying – BUT – I have become Quite Proficient in keeping conversations going with these beautiful souls.

I just Nod, Raise my eyebrows in total interest and wonder, interject an occassional ‘Oh! Is that right?’ or ‘WOW!’ or ‘Ohhh Myyyyyy?’ depending on the inflection or tone of the Toddler talk.

It seems to work, because they’re always satisfied and they keep on talking away.  This was the case with the toddler/boy.

His mom got up and stood in the archway from the other room. She started to ask him not to bother me.  I let her know it was OK, I was having fun!  She had heard me ask him a few times, if he knew the Spider Man song?  She was telling him to ‘respond to the lady’s question.’  He was so busy talking, he didn’t really care WHAT I was saying! hahahaha

So, I start to sing him the Spider Man song:  Spider Man, Spider Man, does whatever a spider can… spins a web, any size… etc etc.
He just looked at me in stunned silence. HAHAHAHAHA

The mom said: ‘The song is different now, that’s the one I know, too.’  I laughed and said: Oh! I guess you don’t know the old people Spider Man song. 

Well, it didn’t phase the toddler-boy, he just kept jibber-jabbering away.  The funny part was – he would present his talk directly TO me – with a very determined look – telling me ALL SORTS of things. 

Heck if I know what any of it was!  His mom smiled occassionally getting a kick out of it.

At one point, his little toddler sister, named Riley – came in to join him, as well as the dad.

Little toddler-boy came over with his Spider Man all-terrain vehicle and pointed to an area near the steering wheel asking: What’s this?
I said: It’s the steering wheel.

Well – he wouldn’t buy it – it wasn’t enough.  ‘No!’ he said, pointing to the area in the MIDDLE of the steering wheel; ‘this’.
I said: ‘OH! THAT’S THE SUPER SPIDER SHOOTER!’   [hey, he caught me off guard.  I thought I did pretty well.] ha ha

He said: ‘WHAT does it DO?’
I said: ‘It spits out sticky spider web stuff to grab the cars in front of him.’

He bought it!  Am I good or what!

ahahahahahahaa
The mom thanked me.  I said, ‘No problem! Since the kids don’t have to come home with me, I have no problem PLAYING along while they’re here!’

Then – they were on their merry way…

Toddler Talk…. it’s all GIBBERISH to me.

Ha Ha Helen of LAFOLOT
In the Moment….
Live Life! Laugh Often!
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[This blog can also be read at Vibrant Nation under blogging name: Helenoflafolot]