taking care
of alpha boy again for the third consecutive day. apparently his grandma and grandpa on wednesday 'didn't want to get his cough', thursday 'were getting ready for vacation' and today well their Mom has just given up asking, since clearly the desire to spend time with him just isn't there :( i surely hope they don't miss him too much while they're spending grandparents day alone in Hawaii though ;)

wondering
will i be that grandma....? there'll be time before grandchildren and time after grandchildren- i want to be there for the wonder years... there are soooo few of them. i hope i never feel the need to avoid my grandkids and i hope i miss them horribly if we can't be together... however full of "why?" questions alpha boy may be, and however annoying that cough is, and however many times per 5 minute period he may ask for a snack, i can't imagine a time when vacation preparations or germ worries could seem more important than hanging out with the baby of my baby :( it's my one item on my very short (one item) life wish list (the term 'bucket list' makes me sick, it's the radio song of generic movies) to have TIME and PATIENCE to spend with my grandchildren and to be physically able to swing them high in the air between my hubbie and i as we walk through Disneyland :) and buy them mickey ears with their nickname embroidered on the back, and to let them have cotton candy and tigger tails and ride 'it's a small world' over and over if they wish till they're a drooly, sticky, exhausted mess in my arms :)

going
to Tustin Ranch Costco today (sign of the cross). to print pics for alpha boy's mom of him looking truly angelic and silent :)

wanting
to pick apples this weekend and make a pie with that new fake stevie sugar stuff that also has no crust... is there such a thing? i can't have the calories or the sugar but how i want apple pie.......

off to play alphabet bingo and be a gracious loser :)