Prayers

When I was little and my parents were teaching me how to say my prayers they did what everyother parent does when saying prayers with their children. You say your thankfuls and you ask Heavenly Father to bless whomever. My classic was I had to throw in "and God bless Marvin Zindler." For those of you who don't know who he is, you don't live in Houston. He is a guy who does special news stories and always does the restaurant reports. He even has a Paul Schafer-esque song about Slime in the Ice Machine. (For those who don't know who Paul Schafer is, you have never seen David Letterman.) A lot of times when Zachary and I do his bedtime prayer just I will say it because normally he has no desire. I figure I'm doing good if he'll fold his arms for me. He's just a very tempermental person. Tonight when I asked him if he wanted a turn of course he said no, but I thought I would give it a try. Of course he began repeating me when I told him what to say. But I was tired and ready to get him to bed so tonight while saying his prayer I decided to cheat a little. When we got to the bless people part instead of listing everyone like Aunts, Uncles and Cousins I decided to say, "please bless all of my family." Well that wasn't good enough for Zachary he said, "please bless all of my family and grandma." I couldn't help but laugh when I heard that. I knew my mom would be the proudest ever to hear that so I made sure to post it for all to read. I guess Grandma is a little more special than Marvin Zindler.