...Continued from yesterday:
On Friday morning, the R &R segment of our California trip being officially over, Tom and I plunged into the occupational specialty for which we had had been deployed From Columbus, Ohio, to Los Angeles, California:
Babysitting our grand daughters over spring break.
On Friday morning, the R &R segment of our California trip being officially over, Tom and I plunged into the occupational specialty for which we had had been deployed From Columbus, Ohio, to Los Angeles, California:
Babysitting our grand daughters over spring break.
Now, while I feel a mix of gladness for and envy of my fellow grandparents who live so close to their offspring that they can be part and parcel of their grandchildren's lives on a regular basis, still, living so far away does give Tom and I the benefit of our visits being special occasions.
Thus may we go about our grandparental mission of spoiling to our hearts' content and guilt-free,
Thus may we go about our grandparental mission of spoiling to our hearts' content and guilt-free,
...knowing it's only temporary and therefore unlikely to produce any long-term adverse outcomes in our grandchildren's development.
To that end, as our four-year-old grand daughter's break began on Friday, one school day before her sister's, we planned a full operation of activities for her and a couple of friends who came over for a day-long play date.
We started with some supervised nail-painting,
We started with some supervised nail-painting,
| ...then a crafts project, |
| ...then some playtime, during which the girls composed on the keyboard tunes in the expressionist dissonant style of which Pinky Poo appeared to be a rapt admirerer. |
The girls then made up a game that involved taking turns blocking the hallway and allowing passage only with the password, which was "bunny shoes and kitty shoes." Grandpa Tom kept getting the password wrong, much to the girls' delight, and hence was denied passage every time.
We also took a trip to Pollywog Park (see post from 8/29/2014),
We also took a trip to Pollywog Park (see post from 8/29/2014),
...after which we went to Mandy's for lunch (see yesterday's post), where the girls were fascina-ted by the counter seating,
...and the old-fashioned claw-crane vending machine.
| The girls opted for grilled cheese sandwiches, |
| ...while I made a most auspicious choice, the delicious veggie skillet. |
| After lunch we went for frozen yogurt, |
...then returned home for another round of playtime before it was time to retrieve the big sisters from school.
And so at the end of that first day of our grandparental call of duty we could say that the day's maneuver went down with unanticipated success - no casualties: no fighting, crying, or boo-boos - and much thankfulness on Tom's and my part that we'd built up almost enough stamina for just such a mission as this one by having twice hiked the 497- mile Camino de Santiago across northern Spain. (see https://www.andlightenyourpack.com/ and https://pattiliszkay.weebly.com/)
Day One: mission accomplished.
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