Thoughts & Day 172 CJSM

Advice!?

 

2 things I am cognizant of every day

and practice into positive-habit:

 

1)      Learn something “new”;

and,

2)      Make somebody “smile”!

 

Don’t forget to smile, yourself!

Amen!

 

 

 

Plus:

 

 

 

 

Day 172

 

 

Bapa to the little girls, “Which hand?”

 

 

That “Santa Claus” theme seems to be quite pervasive in me.

Once I had a job (Oh! God! Not that) where I got a nice monthly bonus amounting from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars (usually in the hundreds, but, I did have my days).

Back in the day we did not have direct deposit and all such “sophistication”; I got a paper check and took it to my bank to deposit. The “bonus” money check I got in cash ($100’s).

When I got home, I’d roll up several bills in two piles and hide them in my clinched fists.

I’d call the little girls, hold out my hands with the money hidden, and say, “Which hand?”

Beth and Becky would each choose a hand and get the hidden $100’s; I enjoyed that trick!

When Z. Tyler and the “new” little girls came along, I persisted in my “Santa Claus” routine.

It wasn’t, and, still isn’t, always money; might be candy or ball tickets---or…you-name-it!

 

Ah! Cookie Jar Sweet “Which hand?” Memories!