How we love those little plastic pools that we can fill for the kids in the yard! You don't have to pack up the stuff and head to the beach and it keeps them cool and occupied for long stretches of time outdoors. When I went looking for groceries about a year ago in St Paul... I also wanted to find one of those little plastic pools... it was later in June and all that was left in the store was the blow up kind... so I got what we now call the "aquatic center" as it has two pools and a dolphin that sprays water and two blow up palm trees too! Surprisingly it has no holes yet, as it was a source of fun for the grandkids up in the city as they would gather around our 20 year old son John as he was struggling to discover what was going on in his brain... it turned out to be cancer! We are quickly approaching Father's Day and the 1 year anniversary of going into the hospital here and to hear for the first time that John had something abnormal in his brain! The little pool was a gift for the grandkids to have some "fun" in the midst of our horror and shock! Now it has come here for the summer with a trailer load of Maria and Joe's stuff as Joe just joined the army and they do not have a place to put down roots yet.... Over the weekend we waited patiently (?) for the pool to be found in the trailer and blown up and filled with water.... then it drew the kids like magnets time and time again... so many fond memories of last summer and how John's cancer brought the family together! Even Hallel came to be with us and watched the kids play and splash...How she loves those kids! Maybe for all of us to have a kiddy pool and put our feet in it on a hot miserable day could turn us into joyful and always busy kids... water is an amazing thing and we all need it in so many ways and we need to calm down and find the peace in our lives to go ahead and face all that life holds for us... It is not always great and without the crosses the ressurection joy would not be what is means for us!
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