I retrieved my “little grandchildren” yesterday. That’s GS3 and GD1 and GD2. They are 7, 4, and 2, considerably younger than GS1 and GS2, brothers who have lived here with their Mother, D1 for a few years. GS3 has this week off school, a happy thing. He can’t come as often as the girls, since … Read more
I stayed up real late last night, rooting for the underdog football team. You know, the one that plays on the blue field. After Oaklahoma intercepted a pass and scored what I though was the winning touchdown with a minute remaining, I gave up and went to bed. The rest is history, the team with … Read more
D3 is off to work, Papa is driving her today. She is plenty old enough to drive herself, but her place of employment is 10 miles in the direction we’re doing after she finished work. It makes sense for us to pick her up on the way. And, she won’t have a car sitting in … Read more
Today is the 23rd, usually a busy day. But we didn’t have a thing to do. We removed our tree and packed Christmas away for another year. We cleaned. We packed our car for the trip to Jekyll on the 26th, and packed our van for our Christmas with grandma up North. We visited some … Read more
Granddaughter 2 is a lovely child, about 2-1/2 years old. She is heavily influenced by living in a home filled with words, books and 2 older siblings. Never, not even in her first months, was she satisfied to be little, younger, less able unable. She has simply grown up reaching for tasks that are normally … Read more
In case you didn’t guess, the granddaughters are here, and I couldn’t blog much, even if I wanted to. But they are too much fun. It’s 40 degrees here, very unusual. We’re making pie and rolls and then we’ll make the dressing for tomorrow’s turkey. The presents under my tree and killing them, they want … Read more
Our car needed some repairs, so I took it in yesterday. Papa drives the car for work, and it gets a lot of miles put on it. It took us to Pigeon Forge, and it will also take us to Jekyll Island later this month. We have a long-standing relationship with the car repair man, … Read more
So, we’re home from Tennessee. We had a great time at the Larkin family’s Christmas in the Smokies. We slept in, talked to a bunch of nice people, looked at the great light displays in Pigeon Forge, all the Fudgie stuff. On the way home we noted some changes in the scenery since our last … Read more
Papa and I just bought ourselves a couple of Christmas presents. Now it’s real hard for either of us to think of something we need. I often think the key to happy living is being able to separate what you need from what you want in a very systematic and intellectual way. You’ll always be … Read more