Time, in her eyes!

Well, my granddaughters were glad to see that Nana finally took Christmas down ( on Jan 31st )  and now had beautiful red and pink hearts everywhere! Angie has always loved helping put up and take down all the different seasons of decorations at Nana and Poppa’s house. Now Jenny is getting old enough to get into the excitement of it all. Someone said to me, doesn’t it take alot to change all those seasons? The answer is YES, but I love it, all my kids loved it throughout their lives, and now to see how excited in my granddaughters get…it is totally worth. I hope I get to continue to do it for many, many years to come.

I think that I told you that Angie and I watched a movie a few weeks ago, where the children made a Time Capsule. She was so inspired by that, that she wanted us to make one and bury it … and so we did. That was a couple of weeks ago, our promise was to open it on Christmas Day 2012, a year was all she could commit to. However, every day for the past week she has asked to dig it up. A couple of times I have caught her in the back yard with the shovel. I stop her and try to talk about time and how excited we are going to be on Christmas Day this  year.

She wasn’t satisfied and just couldn’t think about her stuff being buried in the ground any longer. So as we talked about it some more, we decided to dig it up on Valentine’s Day. And since she really doesn’t have a good concept of time, we made a paper chain with lots of cool Valentine Stamps all over it and then I explained  she just has to wait until she gets to the end of the paper chain. As I looked in her eyes, I realized she saw things very different, her time was very different than mine.  Her time is about the here and now…hum, maybe that is exactly what mine should be like more often!  Children, they can teach us soooooo much, if we would just let them!

Ok, I just looked at the time, and I need to go to bed. Good night dear friends.

You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.
Charles Bruxton

“Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't
own it, but you can use it. You can't keep
it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it
you can never get it back.”   Harvey MacKay quotes

“Don’t count every hour in the day, make every hour in the day count.”

We will be best friends forever!

Last night Angie had her Monthly SLEEP OVER AT NANA’S. It has become a real important event, especially since Jenny was born. It seems like they compete about everything, so this is one night and day that Angie and I have alone. It shouldn’t be too long before Jenny gets to come over for her SLEEP OVER WITH NANA. Today was even extra special, because it snowed! We don’t get snow here very often so it has been a real treat for all of us. Usually a sleep over involves a movie and popcorn, making some type of craft, cooking something and just basically hanging out together. Today we decided to watch a Christmas movie. ( oh come on, I know it’s over but…there is snow outside, my Christmas decorations are STILL up and she is only 5 and loves Christmas as much as her Nana does) . Sooooo we watched this one called A GOLDEN CHRISTMAS. I don’t want to ruin the movie for you  ( I know you are going to run out and rent it right away) but I need to share with you one part. It is the part where a 9 year old girl and a 10 year old boy are friends and spend a whole summer together at a camp, before they part to go to their homes, they made a time capsule out of an old lunch box. They put their treasures and memories in there, and then they never saw each other again, until…. oh I don’t want to ruin it for you!

 

But the point is this….after the movie Angie REALLY wanted she and I to make a Time Capsule of our own. So that’s what we did for the next little while. We found a tin can, cute but not as big as a lunch box. Then we put things in there that we liked …her favorite couple of rings…because we both like jewelry, a homemade Christmas ornament…because we both love Christmas, a rubber squid….? not sure about that, a decorated box… because it looked like it was a treasure, a heart from Build a Bear…to remind us to always share with Others, a bracelet and a few other precious things. Then we wrapped up the box and buried it in the back yard, we had to be careful where to bury it …because all of our family pet Guinea Pigs are buried out there too! Then we did a pinky promise and next we wrote it on the calendar to dig it up on Christmas this year. That seemed like a LONG time for her. The last thing we did was she whispered in my ear…You will be be my Best Friend Forever! I repeated the same to her.

I love doing this type of things with my kids and now my grandkids! I love that we really do get to stay best friends forever. I am glad to know that Families are Forever! Someone once said to me…you are a great Grandmother! Well, I really should be…I missed soooooo many things like this in my childhood, that I have always strived to give it to my kids and grandkids…actually any kids I meet. I think they should feel like the most important person in the world to someone. I think they need to feel LOVED! I think they need to enjoy their childhood, I miss that I didn’t get one. So I will strive the rest of my life to make sure that every kid I meet has one with lots of wonderful memories,  and knows that they are important to their MOM, NANA, AUNT LYNN, SISTER LYNN or whatever they call me. I really think that can make a difference in their lives…for the better.

So the truth is …I get a lot from all these special moments too! I get new wonderful memories, new friends and family and a LOVE that is FOREVER, I hope I never let Angie or any kid down in this area of my life! It is vital I believe. Yes, childhood is the best …or should be! Thanks to all of you who have shared your family with me! I truly do love all of them! Being a Grandparent… is just ICING ON THE CAKE!!!

Good night dear friends!

“The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing in life is that our souls remaining over the places where we once enjoyed ourselves”    ~Kahlil Gibran

“It is never too late to have a happy childhood”     ~ Tom Robbins  

"The soul is healed by being with children."    ~ English Proverb