As you all know, we’ve been talking to you about making some memories for your kids and grandkids.
Shelby is our only granddaughter, and she came to see us this past weekend. Ever sense she’s been big enough to go up the stairs, she has to go and wake her Papa. This makes no matter what time it is when she gets here.
Saturday, Shelby and Red got here around 11:00. She got out of the truck, and the first thing she asked is, “Where’s Papa?” I told her he’s still in bed! Mark (Red) looked at me and said, “No he’s not,” and I winked at him, and said, “Yes he is!” Red just shook his head!
Now Dub gets up no later than 5:30, every morning, but if he knows Shelby’s coming, he’ll go back up and lay down right before they get here, so she can go upstairs and “wake him up.”
So when I told Mark that he was still in bed and winked, he looked at me like, I KNOW he would have done that for me or Josh! He’d have told us, get your butts out of here!
Shelby looked up at me and said, “Papa is being a lazy bones this morning, huh Nana? I better go get him up!” She took off upstairs yelling for me to hurry up, too!
She’s been doing this for about 3yrs. now, and not once has she ever touched him. All she does is walk up to the bed, and puts her hand over her mouth and starts laughing, and sure enough, that makes her Papa “wake up,” and he always asks, “Who’s waking me and up,” and her smiling self hollers, “ It was me Papa, are you up now?”
Then Dub’s got a toy truck that has two hunters in it, with a deer across the hood. Well, it plays “Sweet Home Alabama, and Low Rider,” and when the songs are playing the deer raises his head and sings too. Her next step is to mash that button, so it’ll sing to him and now, her job complete, she can go play.
It is hard for us to believe she’ll be 4 yrs. old, this Sunday, but time does fly anymore! I can tell you this though, she’ll always remember going up those stairs and waking her Papa up.
Mark is right, if he or Josh would’ve disturbed him, they’d have got told something…quick! I don’t know why it is, but it’s okay for the grandkids to do things like that, and somehow we think it’s funny, and it is!
I think it’s because when the grandkids come along, you’re a lot older, and you have more time to spend with them.
When your kids are growing up, you’re having to work pretty much all the time, because you’re just starting out. It’s not that you don’t enjoy your kids and have fun with them, but you have the pressure of everything else in your life that you’re trying to get done. Things like buying a home, keeping your car running, you ever been there, and even keeping food on the table.
I think that’s why God made us grandparents, so that you can have a part of both worlds! We love all our kids, and I know the other grand’s or great-grand’s out there know this to be true…your grandkids are truly something very, very special, and we’re all so blessed to be able to enjoy them!
Just like with her Papa, Shelby and I have a routine too…but this ONLY after waking up her Papa!
Since she first started walking good, she loves to get into our pantry, and “hide from me.” She does it without fail! “Nana, can you find me,” she hollers, and I holler back, “I’m trying Shelby,” and she’ll just bust out laughing!
Now, I have to tell you this, then I’ll stop with it for this morning.
When Shelby Lynn goes into the pantry “to hide,” she’s ALWAYS got the pantry light turned on when she’s wanting you to “find her.” Well, let me tell you, if you’re “looking for her,” and happen to turn that light switch off, “BY ACCIDENT,” you don’t have to try and find her long, because in just a second or two…she’ll be FINDING YOU!!
Thanks for dropping by to see us today, and remember…Keep a smile on your face, and one in your heart!
God bless!
Deb