Children!

My six year old great grand daughter is not a morning person!  Neither is her mother!  Last day of school before Christmas vacation, girl informs mom that it is a "free dress" day.  If your children are required to wear uniforms to school, you know this is a good thing.  Mom and girl go back upstairs to change--lots of voices, noise coming down.  Girl is not happy with what mom has selected for her to wear.  Mom leaves for work, girl is 'put out'!  Stomps around sputtering, just as I am about to admonish with obey your mom, your mom loves you, etc., she looks at me and says " she won't let me wear what I want to wear, she is set on making me into, into, into HER!"  This is most profound thing I have heard lately! 

Christmas

In this economy, everyone I know is having money troubles.  At the very least, cutting back on movies and dinners out.  My oldest granddaughter works overtime frequently to make ends meet and have a little extra for her kids and family.  A few weeks ago, she came to me and said, "We need to have a theme for Christmas this year!"  Thinking she meant something like Victorian, or western, etc., I said sure, what did you have in mind?  "Homemade!" she said.  I liked it! We all like it!!  We dug deep, and remembered things that we all used to make or had made for us and it has been great fun!  Old skills and new projects have gotten us all into the true meaning of Christmas,  love for one another! Celebrating friends and family and Christ's birth rather than 5 am sales on Black Friday!!

Kids and Names

In 1960, I had the first grandchild in both families, a girl.  Two years later, I had number two, another girl.  A year later, my husband's oldest sister had the first boy.  Very cherished, and indulged, (anything he did was wonderful).  My girls called the older auntie "Sanny".  The younger, Carolyn, objected to my girls calling her "Curder".  One day while shopping, she heard her sister's little boy call from a distance in a very loud voice, "Caca, Caca"!!       She no longer objected to Curder!!