Honorary Grandma

All of my grandparents live in Idaho and Illinois and now all of the girls grandparents live in Idaho, so needless to say none of us get to see our grandparents all that often (Andrew's grandparents have all passes on).  So there are a few older couples and ladies at church who just google over the girls every week.  They always make sure to check in and tell us how big the girls are getting, how good they were in church that day and of course how cute the look. One in particular has been coming up to us since we first started attending mass at IHM, her name is Mary Lue, and she is so wonderfully nice.  Now that the weather is cooling down and life is getting a bit less crazy and a bit more structured we invited her over for a morning of tea and conversation (just to get to know her better, and for her to spend some time with the girls).  You would not believe the excitement  in her voice when we asked her to come over on Tuesday.  She was so darling making sure she was not interrupting the girls naps, or lunch and making sure that it was not to early and not staying to long.  We had a splendid time talking about our lives (she to is one of 8, 6 boys and two girls so she can relate).  She brought Hannah a few books of stickers which kept her busy for about 45 minutes decorating anything she could find to put them on.  Mary also spent a good time holding and interacting with Felicity, it really was so fun to watch.  Then at the end of the morning Mary helped Hannah pick up all her toys and listened to a few of Hannah s "you know what" stories (that is for another post).  We decided at the end of our time to make Mary Lue our honorary grandma since we don't have our here to share these wonderful days with.  Hannah also kept saying after Mary left that "I had so much fun playing with Mary".  It really was so fun to get to know someone new and someone we would not typically spend that much quality time with; you don't really see many 30 somethings hanging out with the older folks unless the are indeed their parents or grandparents. It felt good to make someones day like that.  I look forward to the many more days we will spend with Mary Lue.

Thank you Mary for your openness and kindness to our family,