Participants: Joyce Neal
Series Code: GH
Program Code: GH000005
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00:01 Hi there! I'm grandma Neil!
00:03 The program you are about to see, shows a typical day 00:05 for the children in my neighborhood who visit me at 00:08 grandma's house in Chehalis Washington. 00:11 These children are not actors they are just being 00:13 themselves as I let you peek inside our doors. 00:16 What a joy it is to see them learn of Jesus 00:19 for the very first time. 00:20 Come on outside now and enjoy a little visit grandma's house. 00:43 Oh I like this one, lets see! 00:44 Well I don't know, what do you think? 00:51 I am so glad you are the first guys here today. 00:54 The other girls will be along pretty soon, but for right 00:57 now I'm just trying on hats like my grandma used to do. 01:00 Let's see what some other ones might look like. 01:06 Well, I like this one, I think she used to wear 01:12 this one to church. 01:14 And I'm not sure whether it goes this way, or this way 01:17 or maybe even this way. 01:19 What do you guys think? 01:21 Which is best, which is scary? 01:24 Hmmm I kind of like it like that, well don't you think 01:29 hats should be at a jaunty angle? I do! 01:45 Oh a letter! 01:46 Dear girls come on up to the attic I am waiting 01:48 for you there, love grandma. 01:51 Let's sneak in and surprise her. 02:03 This one's, you know what I think the kids are coming. 02:08 I think the other grandkids are here. 02:10 I hear them sneaking up the stairs. 02:12 Let's don't let them know we hear them. 02:14 Alright, Shhhhhhhhh! 02:17 Grandma, oh, Hey! 02:20 So glad to see you guys, you snuck up on me. 02:23 I'm trying on hats that belonged to my grandmas and grandpa's. 02:27 Do you want to try some? 02:28 Yeah - alright, here's one, this one is a classic. 02:32 We'll try that with Britney. 02:37 Are you under there? 02:43 Try that one! 03:03 Oh Wow, you are too cute. 03:26 This is a special hat. 03:28 Oh do you like that one? 03:56 Grandma you've got the coolest hats. 03:58 Well thank you I think that they are pretty cool too. 04:01 I would like to show you some pictures I have of hats 04:05 from days gone by, are you interested? 04:07 Yeah, show us. 04:09 I keep my pictures in this box here. 04:11 First I want to show you this, this is the first hat I 04:16 remember ever wearing. 04:18 What do you think, that's me and my older brother. 04:22 We both have hats on, aren't those pretty cool? 04:26 Umhmm! A slug bug, - ha ha well that's not a Volkswagen. 04:31 It's just the way the cars looked way back then. 04:33 That was about 1946. 04:35 Then look at this lady, this is kind of a scary lady. 04:41 Look at the hat she has got on. 04:42 I can't see that lady well - well it's an old, old picture. 04:46 This is my great grandmother and she was kind of 04:50 a scary lady to me. 04:52 But she liked to wear hats. 04:54 And here's another one, this is a picture of me and my dad. 04:58 He has got a hat on and I was maybe 7. 05:02 That was going to church one morning. 05:06 I have another one in here I want to show you. 05:10 This picture I love, could you guess who is in this picture? 05:17 You - no I am not, it is way older than that. 05:22 This little girl right here is my mother. 05:26 This is my aunt, and this is my grandmother 05:30 when she was young. 05:31 I remember a lot about her and liked her a lot. 05:34 She was real special to me. 05:36 And I have an essay, some thing a little girl 05:39 wrote when she was 7 years old that talks about grandmas. 05:43 It's kind of funny so I will read it to you, Okay? 05:47 Ready, ah huh! 05:49 What is a grandma! 05:51 A grandma is a lady who has no children of her own. 05:56 So she likes other people's little girls. 05:58 A grandfather is a man grandmother. 06:03 And he goes for walks with the boys and they talk about 06:06 fishing and things like that. 06:08 Grandmas don't have anything to do but just be here. 06:13 And they are so old they should not play hard. 06:17 Like me, I'm too old to play hard right! 06:19 Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! 06:22 It's enough that they drive us to the supermarket where 06:26 the pretend horse is. 06:28 They have lots of dimes ready or if they take us for 06:31 walks they should slow down pass pretty things like 06:35 leaves and caterpillars. 06:37 And grandmas should never say hurry up. 06:40 Usually they are fat, but not too fat. 06:44 They wear glasses, like this and funny underwear 06:52 which I won't show you. 06:54 Ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Ha! 06:56 And what else they can do is they can take their teeth 06:59 and gums off. 07:01 Can you do that? 07:03 No - see I have a talent nobody else has. 07:05 Grandmas don't have to be smart, they only have to 07:08 answer questions like why do dogs hate cats? 07:11 And how come isn't God married? 07:12 Did you ever think about that? 07:14 No - Hummmm! 07:15 Grandmas don't talk baby talk like visitors do. 07:19 Because it's really hard to understand. 07:21 When they read to us they don't skip words and they 07:25 don't mind if it's the same story over again. 07:28 Everybody should try to have a grandma, especially if they 07:32 don't have television because grandmas are the only 07:36 grown-ups who have got time. 07:38 Isn't that cool, and grandma's do have time for grandkids. 07:42 We love to have you come. 07:44 I love it when you come over and we play like we did today. 07:46 Can you take off your teeth again? 07:49 I could but it's something I only do on very special 07:52 occasions, do you think this is special enough? 07:55 It's like upside thing - is it! 08:01 Ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! 08:03 Well that's something you can't do until you get to be a 08:05 grandma, you are just going to have to wait. 08:07 Well have we had fun today? 08:10 Yeah! yeah! yeah! - cool! 08:12 Girls, it's time to come home now. 08:14 Oh, girls we you give me a hug before you go! 08:17 Don't make mom wait too long. 08:19 I love having you guys come. 08:21 Oh I have had such a good time. 08:23 I'll see you again soon, okay! 08:24 Bye grandma - bye - goodbye! 08:26 Bye, well we have had all ball today. 08:30 Maybe a few surprises along the way too. 08:33 I would love to get some letters for you guys. 08:35 I would like to hear about the hats that you especially love. 08:38 And if you have other kinds of things you have from your 08:42 grandparents that they have handed down to you, would 08:44 you write and tell me about them or maybe send me a picture. 08:47 I love it. 08:49 So if you would get a pencil on a paper and write down 08:53 my address so you can write to me. 08:55 Hey kids grandma Neil would like to hear from you. 08:58 She loves to get pictures, drawings and anything else 09:01 you may want to send her. 09:02 She also answers each one of your letters so get your 09:05 pen ready and write down her address. 09:36 I love it when you come to visit. 09:39 It gives me an excuse to become a little girl again, 09:42 and see you through the perfect eyes that 09:45 only a grandma has. 09:47 Now I wear glasses sometimes, but that is not what 09:50 I am talking about. 09:51 The perfect eyes I have I only got after I lived many years. 09:57 You see the first time I was a little girl it was just 10:01 practice, I made lots of mistakes and I wish I could go 10:04 back before I made the mistake and make a different choice. 10:08 But we both know that is against the rules. 10:11 There aren't any do over's in life. 10:13 Except, don't you love that word? 10:16 It means that once in a while God gives us a 10:19 chance for a do over. 10:22 Remember grandmas are antique little girls. 10:25 That means because of you, I get to be young at heart again. 10:29 I get to play and laugh and learn, 10:32 but this time it is a do over. 10:35 I get to be like you and I get to keep all the things I 10:39 have learned about my life. 10:40 Such a deal. 10:42 Now I know a lot of the things you wish you knew and I'm 10:46 willing to tell you the secrets I've learned. 10:49 Do you want to know what they are? 10:51 I'll tell you one secret every time you come to visit me. 10:55 I'll tell you one right now. 10:57 It's about my perfect eyes, they are a gift God gives to 11:02 people when they finally learned to give others 11:05 a chance for a do over. 11:07 God calls it forgiveness, it works like this. 11:10 When you make enough mistakes and you do enough wrong 11:14 things then you know what it feels like to be ashamed. 11:17 You feel embarrassed and wished that nobody knew what you did. 11:21 Sometimes you wish you could just hide forever. 11:25 Well that is what forgiveness is, it is when you do for 11:29 somebody else what you wish everybody else would do for you. 11:33 Everybody makes mistakes just like you do, and you 11:38 choose not to hold it against them. 11:40 You give them a chance for a do over, to do better the next time 11:44 And God does that when ever we do something wrong and we 11:50 ask Him for a do over, He gives us another chance. 11:54 And another one, as many as we need while 11:58 we are learning to do it right. 11:59 I see you through the perfect eyes of grandma, that 12:04 means to me you are perfectly beautiful, perfectly 12:09 wonderful, and perfectly lovable. 12:12 I want you to know that I have time for you, no matter 12:16 who you are, or what you look like, 12:18 or what you might have done. 12:20 This grandma loves you just as you are right now, 12:25 and God does too. 12:27 I want you to know that I will always try to help you 12:30 when you are in trouble. 12:31 I'll listen with my whole heart and 12:34 I'll dry your tears when you hurt. 12:37 You'll never be too big or too old to 12:40 come home to Grandma's house. 12:42 Come back soon won't you? 12:43 I'll be waiting! 12:47 It's nice stuff smells like a flower. 12:55 I'm putting makeup on you. 13:04 You look like a beautiful bride. 13:07 You like that? 13:18 Yes it looks like you're walking down the aisle. 13:24 Swish round and round. 13:26 That's a grandpa hat. 13:29 This is really pretty - hey look! 13:37 There you go all finished. 13:40 Did she make you green? - yeah! - No! |
Revised 2014-12-17