GRANDSON DAY

Today was grandson day. I loved it as much as he did. Usually he spends the morning with his sisters while mom is at work, but both girls had other activities going on this morning. So I drug myself out of bed at 6:30 this morning to be there at 7:30. I am not normally getting up that early. It is usually a couple of hours later.

It was cooler this morning that I expected. I knew I wasn’t going to need it most of the day, but I should have worn a sweatshirt for the trip. So when I got there I crawled under a blanket for a while and Morgan joined me. He is a wonderfully loving kid and likes snuggling. After mom and the girls left and we launched our own day. He loves Candy Land. I don’t know why, but he has never beaten me and he is anxious to change that. I won the first one to keep my streak alive, but he destroyed me in round two.

I like to play with the Wii. I seem to always get a little exercise so we began with baseball. I have to use this as an excuse, but I hadn’t played for a very long time. He got eight runs off me in the fist inning. When up to bat, I felt like a beginning hitter. I swung to early or too late. When I did it I popped up a foul ball. He skunked me. I ended up with a great big goose egg.

He wanted me to come out and play badminton. I can’t even remember the last time I played badminton. There was no way I could move fast enough to even hit a slow moving birdie. I was doomed. Ten minutes into the running more than I have run since — well, it is so far back I can’t even remember the last time I ran. I had to go sit down. We went in, turned on the TV and began watching The Search for Noah’s Ark on the history channel and I promptly fee asleep. I guess I was only out for about ten minutes. At least that’s what he said.

He jumped in my van and headed for Toys R Us. His birthday is in a couple of weeks so we went to take pictures of toys he likes. I swear there is nothing in that story he does not like. Everything was awesome. But to his credit, we ended up taking pictures of only ten things. He loved doing that and I managed to stay on my feet walking around for an hour. I haven’t done that in awhile. I was happy.

He wore out and we left to McDonalds where we met his dad for lunch. I blew my controlled eating plan to shreds. As they were leaving to return home, he thanked me for a wonderful day. I also enjoyed it. As I was refilling my cup with a second helping of Toot Beer, Another man at the pop machine said, that was nice to hear. He is so polite. He is — always, and I was proud as punch of the good job my daughter was doing raising all the kids. Of course the oldest is a teenager and now had her teenager moments. Yuck.

Later that day my daughter took me shopping to help me get a new pair of shoes. I didn’t was to struggle getting the new ones on. Surprisingly it took about fifteen minutes. I’m not that hard to please.

Whaling Days began today and several of up went across the street to out secret hiding place to watch the fireworks. It was a terrific display tonight with several new ones. I loved the white ones that looked in waterfalls clinging to the dark of the sky and disappearing into a pool behind some bushes.

It was a terrific day and all is well with the world. I will get up tomorrow and go to the parade where my middle granddaughter will ride a unicycle with her class. I still can’t believe they teach that in her PE class. She loves it got her own unicycle for Christmas. She’s a hoot to watch. I guess I can go to bed tonight. I’m very happy.