Do you remember when the local newscasts ended with that question? It was long before I had children myself, back in 1967 when I was a newly-married person living in San Antonio, but I often recalled it years later when my children started driving and being people out in the world without needing me so much.
Now three of my four grandchildren are older than I was when I moved to Texas trying to figure out how to be an adult in Texas, how to finish my degree, how to be married, and how to keep up without a TV or in-house telephone. (There was a phone booth two blocks away and a friend sometimes invited me over to watch her TV).
Now that I'm a grandmother, and still a mama, I come home from a trip wondering where they are, how they are, and what they're doing.
So this morning, I got a call from Day along with pictures of her recent retreat to Virginia Beach for a crafts weekend with Deanna's family and friends. Also pictures of Marcus and Lucia who are visiting for the weekend.
At the Virginia Beach retreat, Day made a deck of face cards: (I told her she's the most playful creative I know!)
Everybody's okay--that's what I really want to know. Marcus has lost a lot of weight from his recent mono and just found out he needs a tonsillectomy, but he's lit up like the proverbial Christmas tree. Jackson doesn't get a spring break this year now that he's working. Tom and Day are going to Denmark this spring--after they come here for Easter weekend.
So they all love Lucia!
Here is the morning conversation between Day and Tom:
"Okay, Tom, we can't get too attached to her. She's from Spain, who knows where this is going to lead?"
Tom: "It's too late. I can't help imagining them holding our future grandchildren!"
She's a basketball star and an art major, her parents were both Olympians. She speaks three languages fluently. She adores Marcus. And vice versa. What else do I need to know?
Even I--who've never met her--am starting to get "attached" and hoping to get to meet her in the spring.
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