Gordon and I are acutely aware that Michael and Isabelle and the two little girls have only two weeks left in the UK. Time is running out far too fast!!! Without having our spirits too much dampened, we just enjoy our children and grandchildren in the last 14 days we DO have living in the same country - with thanksgiving.
Evie and Isabelle hugging as a 7 month-old and a Mamma do.
Isabelle dressed Josie in her snow-suite and penguin hat and the two of us
set off for a slippery walk in what was left of the snow.
"Remember when...?" - conversations of recalling days of fishing with branches and nets in the little stream,
walking in the water with our wellies, floating autumn leaves and berries.
One day Josie even slipped and fell right into the stream - good thing it was summer time!
Josie flying like a plane - which in the all-too- near future would be reality...
first back home to Germany and after a few months, to Japan.
This is Josie's house under a clump of trees on the top of a very small hill.
Here we played and cooked and ran for shelter from the rain under these same trees that
charmed us in the autumn, sheltered us in the summer, and gave us spring-leaves of promise.
Exuberance!
Josie wanted me to lie down next to her and listen to the small waterfall.
Being a gran - gwan - obliging is a pleasure.
Two minor challenges, though:
1) Gran had no snow-suite so it could be a cold and wet affair.
2) Hanging in mid-air, pushing myself up by my hands and toes could not be maintained
much longer than about a minute at a time.
A few push-ups and a few priceless, close little times of togetherness....thank you for the memories, Josie!
Wish we had a photo of both of us lying next to each other, but that is what imaganiation is for!
Home and a warm welcome!
Josie often caught a ride on my neck when her little legs were tired at the end of a walk
and this is our song when she rides high:
Me and you and you and me
No matter how they toss the dice, it has to be be
the only one for me is you and you for me
so happy together
with a little twirl on "So happy Together"
Except in the case of the Schmidts' 3-year stay in the UK, it was not a matter of tossing a dice!
So happy together!
