Posts Tagged With: grandkids
Growing Up
He’ll be 12 in just a couple of weeks. Mom is going back to work, so he’s got his own phone now and when he calls, I hardly recognize his voice. And sometimes, he looks a lot like my brother… My love for him fills up my heart.
Just A Puddle…
GS2 called me last night and asked if I’d pick him up from school today and take him to the skate park so he could ride his rip-stick there. He was bored, he said, of riding it around the cul-de-sac where his apartment is located. I said I would. The spring gods smiled on Pueblo [...]
“And Leon’s Getting Larger…”*
GS1 at the house this weekend: He’s grown an inch since Christmas Eve. His feet are bigger than mine. His voice hasn’t quite started to change yet, but every now and then it’ll crack. He’s still my Bean, though, and he always will be. *if you can identify that quote, I’ll take you to lunch [...]
Love, Guilt and Insanity aka Christmas
It builds slowly. I’m not sure exactly when it starts, maybe around Halloween. There’s a shift, subtle, like a drop or rise in barometric pressure. Maybe it’s the appearance of Christmas trees and wrapping paper in the stores even before the Thanksgiving turkeys have a chance to gobble. Maybe it’s the energy that kids put [...]
Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner!
Last night was GS1′s first middle school basketball game. He played and practiced all summer, begged his mom to go to the tryouts, pulled up a couple of lower grades (his grades have been really good this first semester), and made the cut after a week of tryouts. G and I got there about the [...]
The Explanation of Naked Women
I little while ago, G and I did some art re-arranging in our room and we put up a piece by one of our favorite local (or anywhere) artists: My photo doesn’t do it justice, it’s bright and beautiful and happy, and I just love it. A few weeks ago, the boys were over and [...]
My Bean
Tomorrow, my oldest grandson will be eleven. ELEVEN! The day before he was born, I had just got back into the country with my mother from our big trip to the UK. I called my daughter to let her know we were back. I was at my mother’s house and the next morning, around 4 [...]
GG’s Famous BB
The other day, the boys were over and GS1 noticed that there were some bananas in our fruit basket that were getting a bit dark. Would I make him some banana bread? he begged. How could I say no? I told him the bananas weren’t quite ready for bread yet, but when they were, I’d [...]
Be Bright, Be Brief, Be Gone
When I worked for the Mari0tt, that was the motto for conducting meetings. Hence, a brief update. I have so far walked 36.5 miles this month. I am 2.5 miles off my goal. This morning, my eyes popped open at 4:45 a.m. (which would have been 5:45 two weeks ago!). Lying in bed, wide awake, [...]
Winner – week of 04/30/12!
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