Yeah, I know. We both thought I’d disappeared from the blogosphere.
At least, I sure thought I was done.
But we all know I can’t really stop talking…especially about my granddarlings.
It’s been more than a year since my last post (god, I sound like a Catholic in confession!) and, bless me, Father, for I have…missed jabbering on in this blog. It’s not exactly up to sinnin’ level (though not to say I haven’t done some of that, but that’s probably fodder for some other blog), but it does seem a shame that I’ve let a year of my granddarling’s life go un-recorded.
So, here’s what’s happened in the last year…
- Leilah is a year old and is still wearing 6-9 months clothes
- Mikayla is seven and is in first grade…and almost in MY clothes
- There is no gramma volunteering needed in first grade…or maybe they just got the warning about That Gramma Kat Woman
- Leilah has started toddling around and is still smiling up a storm (as long as she’s getting her way, that is)
- Mikayla is listening to Glee, Disney tunes and Ke$ha on her iPod
- I am a pet sitter (no kidding! I really am a pet sitter!)
- And way more other stuff that I won’t bore you with here
So what made me start the blog again?
A weird thing happened this morning and it made me realize that time really does go by fast and I really don’t remember a lot of the time that has already gone by. It kind of scared me.
See, I had the little girls overnight last night. We played, we took pictures, we went to the grocery store, we colored and did mazes and played peek-a-boo. All went well. They both got bathed and into bed by 8:30. Wow! I still got it! I am still an organized caregiver!
I woke up this morning with a full morning of work stuff ahead of me so I got my shower early and got Kayla up and then got Leilah up and was changing her diaper. And I’m thinking, “This is hard! I don’t remember doing all of this with Kristen and Kelly and it being this hard!”
Kayla’s sitting at the bar eating her breakfast and I’m chatting along to her and her sister about…whatever…and all of the sudden Kayla says, “Gramma, I’m not Kristen.”
Hunh?
I turn my head to look at her. ”What?”
She gives me this let’s-just-humor-the-old-woman look. ”I’m not Kristen. You keep calling me Kristen.”
“I do?”
“Yes, you do.”
OMG! I think I was just having a flashback. Suddenly I realized that I was A Mom again. Kayla and Leilah are, in many ways, so much like Kristen and Kelly that I was 28 again in the beat of a heart and it was the WEIRDEST feeling!
But I can tell you, it was all too easy to get myself right back on track. I just looked in the mirror. Who IS the old woman with all those wrinkles?!? I can sure tell you…I ain’t 26 anymore!