A NEAT TIME WITH GRANDKIDS

Monday, March 21, 2011

    Being Monday, I was with Jayden and Bailey from 2:40 until their dad came home some time after six.

    When they got in the car after school I asked if they wanted to go to Del Taco or somewhere. Bailey nearly panicked. "I want to go home someone is going to come over and play!"

    That "someone" was Jacob.

    As soon as we walked in the house she pulled an envelope out of her jeans back pocket. It had Jacob's phone number written on it.

    She grabbed the house phone and dialed, but after three tries with no one answering, she said, "Ok, let's go!"

    We stopped at Wal-Mart and got them each a little something and I got a three pack of large boxes of tissues we checked out and went to Del Taco. Bailey and Jayden each got a bean and cheese burrito and I got a large hard-shelled taco.

    When we got to Wal-Mart, Jayden called Corey and asked if it was "ok if Grandpa gets me a package of Pokie Cards (? Probably wrong name.)

    Corey told him that he wasn't going to say "no" but that he would be disappointed in him if he did. We got them and Jayden spent an hour of so mulling over in his mind how he was going to deal with his dad's disappointment.

    He wanted those cards really bad.

    I have been fighting a cold which has now gone into my chest and arms; i.e. body aches. I laid down on Corey's and Stacey's bed for about an hour.

    Jayden quietly came up and played with his new cards on the table by the window.

    We had an opportune moment to say some good I love you's.

    It meant a lot to me.

    Bailey came home from the park freezing and asked me to make some hot chocolate. They didn't have any except some squirt stuff that goes in cold milk. I tried heating it. Yuck! It tasted bad.

    Bailey said that when she and Jacob got cold. Jacob knew a sheltered place. Also there was a "stone bowl". They thought about getting in the stone bowl and cuddling but when Bailey thought about it, it gross her out and she came home instead.

    Jayden ran up to Zach and Cameron's. They were home but couldn't play. He called me and asked if I would pick him up because of the cold and wind.