Grandparent stories I heard yesterday at a meeting.
Where does our innocence go when we no longer have it?
He is four years old. He flew into Denver with his parents in order to visit his grandparents for Christmas. When going through security, he saw everyone taking off their shoes and their jackets and putting them into bins. After putting her personal things into a bin, his mother turned to him and saw him standing there. He had already taken off his jacket and shoes. And everything else. He was buck naked.
Six-year-old "A", a kindergartener, was telling her grandmother about her boyfriend at school. He tried to kiss her, but she's not going to tell on him and get him in trouble. She believes that when they grow up, maybe they will get married. Her little sister, "Q", listening to this story has one of her own to share. She also has a new friend at school, another little girl. And someday, when they are older, maybe they, too, will marry. Older sister, "A", agrees that they may.
I LOVE grandparent stories!!! Thanks for sharing. I laughed out loud and the buck naked airport baby! It reminded me of something that happened when my nephew was a wee tot. It's not a grandparent story, it's an autie story. Once when I was babysitting him, he told me he had to go to the bathroom. He was in there a while. When he finally came out, he said, "Auntie, do you know how to wipe . . . things?"
ReplyDeleteYou've brought back a memory from my own remote childhood, Carol. When I was an itty bitty thing I told my mother I was going to marry Daddy when I grew up. She told me that people just don't marry their daddies. I remember finding this so confusing.
ReplyDeleteG.G.,
ReplyDeleteLittle ones just say it, don't they?
San,
ReplyDeleteThat's so sweet. The innocent love...
Last year my daughter took her two young sons and moved to Ft. Riley, Kansas, to wait for their daddy to come home from Iraq. A is 4 and S is now 8 months old. A, who has lived with us off and on much of his life and never gone more than a couple of weeks without coming to Gramma's house, thinks the reason I haven't come to see him at his new house yet is because I got lost trying to find his house.
ReplyDeleteGoing to see him next week for my birthday... He won't think Gramma is lost anymore.
Amy,
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad that A will know that you have finally found his house! How sweet.
Happy Birthday to you!