I Be Back!
Those three little words took me on a trip yesterday that helped me see what I'm grateful for--one of the things anyway.
My room is an old sun porch that was built onto the house for my grandmother after her stroke--to get her away from my grandfather, so HE said. lol Anyway, it's very, very small but has huge windows nearly from floor to ceiling. Yesterday, while sitting at my desk I hear from just outside my window a little three year old voice stating emphatically, "I be back!". Then I heard "No Shane, we have to go. Come here" Again, "NO. I Be back. I was surprised by this and wasn't sure what was going on and just then heard this tiny tapping on my door.
I got up to open the door to find my neighbor's little three year old boy---big grin plastered across his face saying happily, HI DEE-ah (he can't say Jamie). They were trying to go grocery shopping but it became apparent they weren't going without Shane getting his hug and kiss first!
Across the street is Stella. She's 4. and is a chatterbox...and thinks there's nothing "Miss Jamie" can't do. I thought I'd fall off the porch laughing the night she chastised a cloud for being naughty and blocking her and daddy's view of Venus...and told the cloud if it didn't stop being naughty that it was going to be "soooo punished! because she was going to tell Miss Jamie!
and my own grandkids. Jayden is very calm and sweet and Colby is just...Colby. She's sweet too but well, you'll get it in a minute...
Colby was giving me the third degree about "Nana, why'd you get OLD!?" Jayden, very calmly said Colby, you're going to hurt Nana's feelings. That's not nice. But Colby being Colby was going to get to the bottom of this mystery of why Nana let herself get old when being 4 is so darned fun! Finally in exasperation Jayden looked at me and rolled her eyes and said "I'm sorry Nana. I just can't do nothing with that girl!"
It's funny, I got one of those fortunes from a fortune cookie a few months ago that said "Your life will be filled with beauty. Just open your eyes" Well, I did and only saw dad across the table and thought, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO". I guess what they say is true, "there is no one so blind as he who refuses to see"
So, I'm grateful for all the sweet children in my life.
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