For some reason or other my girls have had a huge, gigantic, massive love of rocks. Plain ol' gray any size rock. This year in Jacuqie's class they have been able to earn Childs Bucks and after so long they can spend that hard earned cash on different items in the "store" donated from families in the class. And wouldn't you know it, Jacquie came home with a robe, a Christmas ornament for me and a small velvet bag of smooth rocks. And of course, every night Jacquie and Emily would fight over that bag of rocks. The winner slept with them under their pillow. This morning when I stepped on that bag of rocks and said a naughty word I remembered a time when Jac had a pet rock named Rocco (clever, I know). She would take that rock in her room and play for hours. One afternoon I was in the family room folding laundry and watching my favorite Barefoot Contessa and she comes in (dramatic of course) with tears streaming down her face and holding her beloved Rocco in her hands. I hugged her and calmed her down and I asked her what had happened. She looked up at me with her big green eyes and says " I was jumping on my bed with Rocco and when I jumped off I told him to stay there but he didn't listen and rolled off the bed and jumped on my foot." She jumps up grabs Rocco and says to him sternly "You mister are going in time out with your friends." She put him in the corner of our stone fireplace until she could "forgive him."
My girls ROCK! They can play with ANYTHING! They can entertain themselves with ANYTHING! They love to play by themselves just as much as they love to play with their friends and cousins. On the way home from a trip Emily would put one foot up on Jay's seat and bring the other one up and ask "Wanna play" and the foot resting on the seat would say "NO! Go away." I have it on video.... a good hour she played that game.
I guess the reason I'm posting this is because they have been in Delta for Spring Break / Easter and I have missed them something fierce! I know they have had a wonderful time with Granny and Papa just one on one and all their attention directed to them. Granny was teaching Jac how to play a song on the piano and helping her with her singing. Papa showed them pictures of relatives and helped them fill out genealogy sheets. Makes me wish I had my grandparents undivided attention and learn something, even a story from them. I'm so happy they were able to spend this time getting to know their Grandparents better so they can become better friends. And when that dreadful day comes that they are no longer with us they will have these memories to share with us and their children. I LOVE my family. My little family of four, my extended family of.... a lot. Makes you wonder how the world can criticize such a wonderful and important unit held sacred in the eyes of God? How can you deny the blessings of a family?
Jacquie and Emily. About the age when Rocco entered our lives :)
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