Nathan and Lighty

     This is a true story told to me by my Dear Cousin Alice Kay.
     Nathan is Alice Kay's Grandson who lives in Denver and my Cousin lives in NE Kansas.
     This is in Alice Kay's words as I could not have said it better...........

"Nathan is excited to come so he can catch "lightning bugs". I decided to surprise him so a week ago on a Sunday night I went out caught about 20 of them, put them in a gladware container with grass and some dead leaves and mailed them to him. They were all alive when he got them and Allison said he was sooo excited!  Unfortunately, the afternoon he received them, Allison's sister-in-law invited them over to swim.  Allison asked if they could keep the bugs in on her kitchen table so they would be in the cool. Well, evidently she didn't want them in her house and so she sat them out on a patio table in the hot sun.  When Nathan saw them a little later, they had all died.  Allison said he was so upset and cried and cried and wanted to know if they went to heaven.  Allison told me that you can buy lightning bugs over the internet, so that is how I got the idea to send him some.  A year ago June when they were here, he took one home with him and he named it "Lighty" and it lasted two weeks. It actually flew away."
   
      That is the most adorable story I have heard in a long time that is aside from them ending up on the patio.  I'm sure the sister-in-law felt very bad as we have all done stupid things which we regret later.  After all who wants to be known as the "Lightning Bug Killer".
       A big shout out to Nathan and all the Lightning Bug Catcher's out there.  You have awakened in me the moments in childhood that are so precious and sweet.  May we remember and savior.  Tootles