The past few days have included spending lots of time with my grandsons and I love that, although getting up early and on the road by 8, when I’m usually just waking up, was a shock to my system! 🙂 Yesterday with Sharky, my morning was filled with UNO, Hoot Owl Hoot (board game), Blackjack, crosswords off my phone, and drawing. Then, after picking up Obro early from daycare (he was thrilled!), we read many books and then dashed around their house, playing freeze tag, “invisibles” (the boys were invisible), hide a ball somewhere and say “hot” or “cold” and various other imagination games that the creative little guys devised. I’m delighted that, at 70 years old, I can still mostly participate in their activities. I did draw the line when they wanted to jump on me, hang on to my legs and have me drag them around or stand on my feet. A spring chicken, I’m not.
Somehow, I was too busy to take any photos although I did snap one of Mochi, their second cat. She’s a beauty and so sweet. Unfortunately, Ziggy wasn’t pleased at the addition to their household and that’s created MANY problems. As a reward for Granny Nannying, OD prepared a delicious meal of navratan korma, followed by homemade fruit salsa and cinnamon sugar chips for dessert. As I’ve mentioned before, my mother-in-law and mom were excellent cooks, but that’s evidently skipped a generation because I’m more the frozen pizza type.
My walking has suffered due to my grandmotherly helpfulness but at least I have autumnal beauty right outside my back door. Incidentally, my lawns are now both mowed, the cyclamen planted and my flowerbeds culled of straggly petunias. Did I jinx the weather by proclaiming we were in a second summer? We now have a frost warning for Monday! Bye, bye, coleuses?
My newly cut back grass has come back nicely from its completely yellow hue during summer. I didn’t water it at all after Anders’ third birthday party in mid-July!
Today meant visiting my younger grandsons. Anders misplaced his special rabbit at daycare on Thursday, going without him for a night (!), but Rabbit was located, thankfully. Doesn’t he look relieved? Sadly, this guy is now on two medications: an antibiotic cream for pink eye and another antibiotic for a strange sore on his leg. I took care of Ian for the doctor appointment, then went to the pharmacy for Anders’ medication, as well as entertaining both boys at times while their mom did household chores.
I peeked at Ian’s back and it’s way better. Whew! That’s the weird thing about eczema; it comes and goes for no apparent reason.
He’s such a sweet baby and enjoys using me to stand, then leaning his face into mine and wrapping his arms around my neck. I melt.
Have you ever seen such a cute little bat?
Tomorrow will be the Seahawks game and overdue time with John who has spent most of the week fishing in the morning and doing whatever mysterious activities he does for the rest of the day. He’s a fabulous guy and wonderful boyfriend, but if I lived with him, it would be challenging on many levels.
Speaking of challenging, I applaud those of you who commented on the political part of my last post; if you didn’t, I also appreciate that. Some of my friends don’t share my ideology or political leanings but have always been respectful. Even my late husband and I couldn’t discuss certain topics, the death penalty for one. We would start out talking rationally, and then I would let him know that I was finished with the conversation. He would keep expounding and I would get passionate…and rather loud and suddenly he would think of a project he needed to work on in the garage. So, eventually, we stayed off that topic. I also recall (on Facebook) those who never commented on any of my posts (usually about plants, cats or other innocuous subjects) coming on to lambast me when I would lament over school shootings or rarely put up anything remotely political.
Because of that, Facebook feels a little risky to me (if I want to avoid virtual shouting matches), so I’m Margaret Lite over there. My blog has always been a safe space, as I hope it is for all my commenters, whether we agree with each other or not. xoxo
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