Well, our Grand Baby is 2 months and 3 weeks old now. She is the most beautiful baby ever.....according to her doting Grammy and Grampa. She is laughing and doing some mimmick work now and then. She is a loyal daughter, too. So many loving relatives trying to soothe her unhappiness, but at the voice of either Momma or Daddy and she came to silent attention. This was momentary, but loyal all the same. It's only fair. Only he and she who have suffered from sleep depravation deserve that attention....
I wrote all of the above the day after Christmas. I am now 4 days out from that, after an 11 hour drive home, I am reminiscing over the past week. We left our home in Colorado 2 days earlier than planned due to an incoming snow storm, so all of the last minute buying, wrapping, planning was condensed into a 3 hour time span. Believe me, that was a total record for me. I am a two-day packer and at that, I leave my toothbrush behind....
I have so many loved ones, friends and memories in my home town. My wonderful mother and step-dad, my son and his wife and Baby Grand, a sister, life long friends and old neighbors. Every corner of this town holds a memory of my younger life. I was born and grew up in the same place and only moved ONCE! I guess I've made my point about what holidays and visits do to my heart while I'm there. I want everything to be perfect when it comes to our get togethers. That's unrealistic! We had a few typical glitches in ours, but it was memorable and nice. The grandsons had their traditional football toss and we wives and moms laughed and remembered when these were tiny little boys playing this game together. I always have one missing man in mind while watching these games who never saw even one grandchild. My father is still very dear to my heart and I see him as I walk through my mother's house. I see him proudly watching his three big, strapping grandboys play their game for him. They are good young men....and he is proud.
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