You want me to do what?????

Sometimes I forget that kids today do not work like we did when we were young. Grandson # 1(age almost 14) is wanting to buy a guitar. His parents told him he could have one but we would have to pay half. Smart move on thier part. This is him on the couch with Payten...they are the oldest and youngest of my grandkids...


I told him if he would weed eat the back yard(which is a jungle-apparently the people who lived here for 7 yrs were not yard people)I would pay him $ 20.00. I did not know that he had never used a weedeater, his Mom was the official weedeater of the house at 10.

Anyway, I showed him how to use the weedeater and sent him out to work. He came over in manly flip flop's and shorts. I ask him could he work in them and he said he could.


A few minutes later he came back in and ask if I had something he could wear. My grandson wears a size 10 shoe---his Paw Paw wears a 8 1/2...see a problem here? So I hooked him up with some of his Paw Paw's long socks and a pair of moccasins. I so should have gotten a picture.....
Out there a few minutes and back in...MiMi...do I have any deodorant here?? It's hot and I am sweating......
NO, but it will not do any good..you can just take a shower when you get done....

FINE... back outside he goes....

Out there a few minutes and back in the house....MiMi , there is a big bee out there...

Does he have a white face????
My grandson in his slow Southern drawl said....WELLLLL...it not like I am going to get close enough to see his face!!!!!!!

Go outside to check it out and is only a bee looking for pollen....assure grandson # 1 it is not a killer bee and he will bee (ha) fine....

Back to work........

Few minutes he is back......MiMi, there is this black thing with legs hanging down flying around out there....may be a wasp!!!!

No, wasp are red.

Could be a female wasp....you know they are the ugly ones....it a nature thing!!!!


Go out and check.....it's a dirt dobber (dauber if your not from the South)......


It's OK man...they will not hurt you....

HUH....that's what you say!!!!

2 hrs later the yard is weedeaten( is that a word) and he is ready to go home and take a shower.....

Ya just gotta love your grandkids.......

When did that happen???

As I was buying a Diet drink and a 90 calories snack for break at work, I dropped some of my change on the floor. As I bent(alright I said it...BENT)over to pick it up...I realized I had become my grandmother.

OMG....When did that happen???
When did I get so stiff I could not SQUAT DOWN and pick something up off the floor??

Couldn't I squat yesterday??? Surely it was only yesterday..I remember squatting !!!

When I was a kid and we went to my grandparent's house for the summer....my sister and I would make fun of my Grandmother bending at the waist--with her butt in the air--picking up something she had dropped.

We would run outside and die laughing at the sight......

I just did that...

Yep....bent at the waist...knee's and leg straight..with my butt stuck straight up in the air....in a public place!!!!

I DID NOT MEAN TO BEND IN PUB-LIC.....did any one see???

Here are my thoughts on not being able to SQUAT...
When I was young and limber and could bend so well at the knees:
I made fun of all those people who could not bend with the greatest of ease.

I thought it was OH so funny that they stooped from their waist to the floor;
With their butts so high in the air ..you could see the socks that they wore.

But now I am one of those people, whose knees just don’t want to bend;
And squatting is out of the question cause I’d never get up again.

So I have become my Grandmother , with my butt way up in the air,
Be careful of who you make fun of …..before long their fate you will share.

Sugar and spice and everything nice....

This is my new granddaughter, Payten. She was born in May and lives in Texas with my son and his wife. She is my only actual grandaughter...I have 4 more from a second marraige. Can you tell she will be a fashion diva with her Chuka Boots on?

I have 2 mean boys to go with this little girl. They add so much joy to my life. They are smart and funny and such good kids.....polite and well mannered. Make a grandma's heart proud.

Aren't grandkids great? Play with them, spoil them, hyper them up and then send them home to Mom and Dad......I should have had them first..