May 21, 2008
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Are You Her Grandma?
Gosh, when am I going to get used to that question??
This is a real conversation that happened a couple of weeks ago when I was taking care of Taylor:
Little girl at park (LG): Are you her grandma?
Me: No, I’m her Godmother?
LG: Are you a Fairy Godmother?
Me: Yes, I am.
LG: Fairy Godmother’s have a wand. Do you have one?
Me: Yes I do. It’s called a credit card and it’s in my purse.
The next day I was at Emily’s birthday party and TWO, not just ONE, but two little girls asked if I was Emily’s grandmother. YIKES! WHEN am I going to accept reality and realize that I AM IN FACT old enough to BE a grandmother?? Maybe it’s because I don’t have human children that I don’t think that I can be old enough to have grandchildren. My mother became a grandmother at the age of 46 when my sister Debbie married Robin and he brought Wendy into the family. She was four years old at the time. Two years later my nephew Shane was born and the rest is history.
Onto another subject. As I mentioned in my previous entry – we had our church fiesta over the weekend. We had a new game booth that was kind of interesting. At first I thought that the booth was selling garage sale type items. But in fact, it was a Portuguese game. What they did was roll small pieces of paper about 1″x1″. On some of the papers there was a number on it. If you got a piece of paper with a number on it then you won a prize. It was fun playing the game, kind of like a raffle. I won a few (weird) items that were donated to the booth. One of them was a package of 3 different sizes of potpourri. It barely had any scent to it so I turned it over to see if there was a date on it and lo and behold, there it was. It was from 1983! WHAT THE FREAK was the person thinking donating that to the booth? Would the person that donated it want to win it herself/himself?! Weird!
Doggone it, it’s time for me to begin my workday. You all have a Happy HUMP Day and be sure to hug your families!
Comments (7)
1983? Geez! That should be tossed out, not donated.
I wore a UVA shirt not too long ago and some guy thought I had a kid going to college. I wanted to smack him but then I started thinking…I am old enough to have a college kid. sigh….
I laughed hard when I read your response about you having a magic wand!!!!!! That’s hilarious!!! But sooooo true isn’t it?
Yes, that ‘wand’ is probably worn to shreds, the way you spoil every body!!
I feel ya, girl. It hit me upside the head the first time a person referred to me as ‘ma’am’ instead of miss. Yeah…that sucked.
Shoot, you can be a grandmother at the ripe old age of whatever. I don’t think there’s a minimum or maximum age requirement.
Now go put some moisturizer on your wrinkly old prune face and stop fretting about your age!!
I love you and you know it!!!!
Wand – credit card….. I LOVE it!!!
Just turned 44 and grandma to 5 and I still get ticked when I get teased about it. I get teased whenever we are with our friends. I have a friend who is 47 and has a 6 year old so she rubs it in a lot. And you know how I love my grand babies! Though I have to admit that I love it when store clerks call me mom to the kids.
Loved the part about fairy godmother, Credit card wand. The new game was interesting . Could maybe be used at a church festival for sure.
I think it is just great that you won sink for you home from the T. V. show. You will enjoy the change even more now. Good Luck and Happy Day.
Well that was not very nice, donating stale potpourri.
You are just an angel in disguise as a Godmother, Aunt!
Oh ‘aunt Godmother’ how wonderful…I just love it Janice..
perfect for you * Thank you so for your sweet words..*hugs* and oh what a darling conversation* ha…aww..credit card wand * 
too much*…yes, it’s hard to imagine being old enough to be a grandma..yikes.*..What a strange thing..old popcorn..yuch…:(..glad you didn’t dig right into it..* Love the photos of your home..looks fantastic** so nice to see you..haven’t been feeling well..forgive me for not coming as often..big hugs to you…and yours* ..lots of love, Lee 
ps..love the site! First thing I noticed..how sweet of your friend to help you.**