Hello Inkers!
Hope your week was good and crunchy! Our ice is all starting to melt and I made it through without breaking a hip so life is pretty great over here. (I think as I age, that’s my new litmus test for success.)
Other than keeping all my joints functioning, I have a plan. Someday, when I’m old(er) and gray(er) and all my kids have moved out, I’m going to be Granny. Not just a grandmother, but a Granny. I want to be that lady who has too many flowers in her yard, who teaches kids how to bake the best chocolate chip cookies, who spends her free time making baby quilts to give away, who wears way too many colors at once just because she can, who waves to babies and talks to all the strangers in the grocery store line about how their day is going, who attends water aerobics every week in her giant flowery, skirted swimsuit, and who wears big floppy hats while harvesting fruits from the garden before turning them into more jam than she’ll ever need. That’s the plan. (Pretty sure I’m 70% of the way there already.)
Have you met someone like this? I’ve met lots of different Grannys and taken mental note of attributes sometimes to store away in my profile of the perfect Granny life. (I’ve also stored away notes of things to remember not to do. I’m looking at you, tinfoil on the airport toilet seats.)
My Granny, Marie, wasn’t like my goal-Granny at all but she was her own kind of awesome for the 97 years she was alive. She swam in the ocean and played lots of Rumikub and told the best stories and called her grandkids “sweetie.” I think if I turn out to be a Granny like her, that wouldn’t be bad either. It’s her birthday this week and to celebrate, I’m probably going to cheat at cards or eat ice cream while watching a Hallmark movie in her honor.
I’d love to see your ideas this week for “Granny.” Not necessarily the Grandmother you have, but maybe one you’ve met or one from your imagination. In any case, think we can all agree the world could use a few more Grannys these days.
“Love you, sweetie!”
-Alison Marie
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