Oh, how much I miss my nature walks with the boys.  I am a country girl at heart.  I grew up in a home surrounded by farms.  I helped deliver calves before I helped deliver human infants.  I hiked and camped to learn about the flora and fauna.  My grandsons embodied some of this and… Read More »

When I began to facetime with my grandchildren, I accepted the fact that sessions ended abruptly, that Plan A was not going to work for one visit, but worked for another.  Age, hunger and fatigue determined how our time together would go and I would have to tailor it around those variables.  Discovering what worked was a… Read More »

Three year old children have attention spans of about fifteen seconds.  That is a fact as I knew from working on projects with the producers from Sesame Street.  Our messages to them need to be succinct.  He knew he was looking at the skull of a mouse, but he also knew it related to a “spooky Halloween”. … Read More »

As we began “facetiming” today I still wondered how our time would go.  What I do know is that our time together would be dependent on them and my ability to “go with the flow”.  “What have you been up to” I queried.  Silence.  Okay, so we can direct our conversations.  At this age our… Read More »

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