Okay, I
have been having way too much fun lately.
Four days a week my nine-month granddaughter stays with me during the
day. Our days are filled with the wonder
and giggles of a little one learning about the world. From the excitement of sending the little red
car zooming off her high chair tray and onto the floor to endless, full belly laughter,
during a rousing game of peek-a-boo she is a delight. This week she is perfecting the roll. I will head to the kitchen to get something,
turn around and there she is halfway across the floor. Her whole face lights up with a smile when I
turn to look and she laughs before tucking her head and rolling again. So much fun bundled up in a tiny being, so
many wonderful moments shared, moments of joy and laughter to carry me through
the weekend when she home with her parents.
An empty,
quiet house was nice, but the laughter of children fills up more than a house
it also fills up the heart. So with only
a day to myself my two older granddaughters came to stay with us for the
weekend. One is eight and the other is
six. They brought their unique brand of
energy and fun to our house, so I decided to up my game. With Halloween just days away and a yard
decorated with pumpkins, ghosts and skeletons I put together a treasure
hunt. The kind where you are given a
clue, which leads you to another and so on until the last clue, leads you to
the treasure. We spent the day outside
in the sunshine, the girls having been told the decorations were off limits
because of the hunt they would have later valiantly followed the rules letting
the anticipation build until grandma and grandpa could not hold back and the
first clue was delivered. As I suspected
the hunt lasted all of five minutes, the clues were easy and the children very
clever, but the joy and shear glee of running from place to place, of thinking
and solving and looking, and finding the prize lasted the rest of the night and
into the next day and will no doubt last a lifetime with each time it is called
up from memory and shared once again.
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