Busy as a Boy

"Pearls on Black"

ACEO Original Colored Pencil Drawing

2.5 x 3.5"

SOLD

Today was a wonderful, busy day. There can be great pleasure that comes from having grandchildren and today I had a bunch of it. Both of my grandsons (3 1/2 and almost 2) were here with me today since their parents had been left in the lurch without a sitter.

Even though my youngest is only 10, it's so easy to forget how BUSY toddlers can be. Here's what we accomplished today:

• Playing with the dogs, throwing lots of things for them to fetch.
• Puzzles
• Reading
• Building with Legos
• Snacks
• Baking brownies
• Coloring
• Fixing, eating and CLEANING UP from lunch
• Playing with about a million matchbox cars (I've been through two boys already)
• Eating ICE CREAM (They ALWAYS get ice cream when they come to my house.)
• More building
• Diapers (THIS I do not miss)
• Outdoor play: wagons, balls, roller skates, scooters, dogs, and a little water and mud.

THAT was just until 1:00 p.m. Exhausting and wonderful. I want to be the warm, fuzzy in their lives - no matter what. We worked on that today, I think.

One of the other highlights of my day, though, was when I just had to call my son-in-law (who thinks I'm a bit of a left-wing-hippie-kinda-person) to tell him that his two sons were dancing to Abba's "Dancing Queen" (it was on the radio, I DO not own it). He threatened to leave work, pick them up and to never let me see them again. Oh, that was rich.