The Lighter Side of Life
Giggles and giggles and more giggles! Dandelion fluff! Baby ducks! Puppies and teddy bears! Hoses and bubbles! A butterfly on your nose! The man in the moon! Grandma and grandpa hugs! Cookies! A cheerful robin! Sleepy kittens! Lollipops! Warm, squishy mud!
Dancing in the rain!
These are a few of my favorite things!
Mission
I love to laugh!
I love to be silly and goofy, to sing off key, make strange bird noises, bark like a seal, and have others laugh along with me!
As a child, one thing I learned in my highly dysfunctional and abusive family, was that by acting the clown, being as silly as I could, often diffused a potentially dangerous situation.
Vision
I have never forgotten that lesson. Laughter is healing; laughter brings joy. The clear, happy giggle of a child is the sweetest sound in the world! It diffuses anger, releases tension, eases heartache. It is a blessing from the Lord! So in everything, as I celebrate my Savior, it is my joy to bring the Creator's love and laughter to the hearts of many. I hope this page at least makes you smile!
A silver dime moon
playing peek-a-boo with clouds
Laughing trees reach high.
Katrina Sweeney
February 25th, 2016
Venus and the Moon
Venus danced with the Moon last night
across a star-strewn sky
The Moon was in a yellow suit;
Venus all in white.
Around and around
the sky they flew
circling to the West
and neither cared that the daylight grew
nor cared at all for rest.
But when the Sun
lifted up her head
and filled the sky with light
Venus dashed away
and the Moon blushed red--
He hurried off and cried:
"Goodnight!"
Katrina Sweeney
March 18, 2020
Our Daughter Will Not Date
Our daughter will not date,
it's a concept that we hate!
and still the young men gather
at the gate, gate, gate!
Our daughter will not date,
how many times must we re-state?
and yet young men keep coming
to the gate, gate, gate!
Our daughter will not date,
this fact we do relate
so why do they keep coming
to the gate, gate, gate?
But...
Our daughter will not date,
not until she's thirty-eight
and still the young men gather
at the gate, gate, gate!
My daughter will not date!
Her dad reiterates
as he stands with a weapon
by the gate, gate, gate!
Our daughter will not date,
but we will save a plate
in case one of them is worthy
by the gate, gate, gate!
Katrina Sweeney
February 7th, 2016
De Demise of De Hot Wattah Heatah!
Oh, sing praises for de heatah of de hot wattah!
In First World countries I tink dat we oughta!
Who cares about de germs, or parasitic worms,
When dere is something to heat de hot wattah!
Oh, sing praises for de heatah of hot wattah!
We never tink of it when we really oughta!
We never count de wishes, while we do de dishes
Of doze who do not have de hot wattah!
Oh, sing praises for de heata of hot wattah!
How sad when it blows and de hot wattah goes
All over de garage with a fountainous barrage
Of wattah dripping over all dat you gotta!
Oh, praise for de man who fixes de hot wattah!
A brave man he goes, running off to Lowes©
And buys a new hot wattah heattah!
Oh, sing praise for de hot wattah heattah!
Once again we knows, de hot wattah flows
From de heatah to de sink, and before we can tink
All de dishes is washed by de daughtta!
Katrina Sweeney
December 4, 2017
Can you guess what broke down in our home today?!
My Grace
I love to kiss her sweet soft cheek
When she stumbles to me sleepy-eyed,
Into my arms she cuddly creeps
With soft and warm and gentle sigh;
I tuck her close, I hold her near,
'Twas never such a one so dear--
So blessed am I by grace above
To have a Grace to hold and love!
Katrina Sweeney
November 5th, 2015
Crow
Black-winged silent beauty
flight echoed
pine to pine
across the silvery meadow.
In a blur of mist and greenness
he sends out his voice
in a still-sleeping world.
Katrina Sweeney
July 1988
