Because sometimes when life (well..politics) has you right there on the edge of "Tyler Durden"
It is nice to pull back to Center by Mall-Ratting with your Grand-Daughter.
It's Summer Break, and I have plans to have a 1:1 Day out with each one of them before school starts in August.
What a wonderful afternoon. Emma is nearly 10 now. That amazing age of being grown up enough to want to find her special fragrance (perfume) and a heart shaped locket at Claire's to put her crushes picture in (also nearly 10...and
"Grandma, he is so handsome") or try on jewellery and assorted hats
but still young enough to go a little crazy in the toy store with the toys, puppets, masks. And bring "Rebecca" along to lunch while learning to eat with chopsticks...or be the proverbial "Kid in the Candy Store" before we had to leave...and even enjoy the Day-Glow Black Light Mini Golf Course :)
The barrel has a lid for Peek A Boo...and the head, hands, arms, and mouth all move. He will absolutely love it!
So we played in the mall and shopped til' we dropped...and then checked out the massage chairs for a BUCK in the mall!
"Nope, I am STAYING here...Grandma!"
Week after next, Brenden and I are going to have a "Guy's Grandma Rose Day" (without the perfume and jewellery shopping) and in July I have another Mall-Ratting Adventure planned with Kaylee and Hannah. Nicole and I will have to sneak away for a day with Aiden who is way too mobile and unpredictable for us to have a solo adventure yet. Would like to see Preston again before school starts, as well.
Summer Fun!
Chris and Tina are off to The Dunes and Lake Michigan this weekend for their own Summer Fun :)
James, Nicki and the kids have been hanging out by the pool a lot, already!
We have been discussing the possibility of a quick 3 day excursion together with a few of the grands to Warren Dunes before summer ends, ourselves!
So...back to Center.
Life is good.
Taking the weekend to relax, bask, write, read, play in the plants, paint, re-group...and be happy in the knowledge that since Bernie WON Indiana in the Primaries I CAN write him in during the General even if he doesn't win the nomination at the Philly Convention in July. No...the SUPER DELEGATES still don't vote or nominate anyone until July 25th...no matter how many times Hillary and the MSM proclaim her to be the Nominee.
So there's that....
