Friday, September 25, 2009

Sitting??? in Kansas City


Last week, we went to Kansas City to baby-, dog-, house-sit for our daughter Rebecca and her husband. Just before we got to the Lewis's house, Louie broke his toe running around the yard. He spent most of the time at the vet while we were there.
Roman and I spent a lot of time outside---here he is with his "gal-pal" Ava.
Roman and Grandpa had a great time reading stories to each other.
Roman read to Grandpa, and then Grandpa read to Roman.
I was a little concerned his pajamas would keep him up at night since they glowed in the dark.
If you know Roman, you know I didn't do much sitting unless he was taking a nap. At 9:50 AM, I'd already clocked over 5300 steps.He went to the Y one day, pre-school one day and we went to "The Grove", an indoor play area another day.
For some reason, this scared a few of the Mom's. Come on Ladies! Did you really think those flowers were for decorations? I did put my foot down when he wanted to hang from that shelf above his head. I tried to find balance between giving him some freedom and keeping him from doing something dangerous. I did have one misstep when I lost track of him for about 10 seconds: he was on an elevator pushing buttons as Grandma came around the corner and stuck her foot in the elevator to keep the door from closing.

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Between Two Worlds

Most of my life, I've considered it fortunate that I was just ahead of the Baby-boom. Generally, the Baby-boomers were born between 1946 and 1964 after the fathers returned from World War II. It was a huge population explosion that has reverberated through American society.

This blog will be part history, part memories, part reflections of a retired teacher, but active "Senior". I have always felt like I straddled two generations forming a bridge. Sometimes I think like a baby-boomer, but sometimes I'm locked into my parents' Depression era thinking. I'm a dichotomy of two eras. But, I'm always ready to try something new---so here I am dipping my toes in the water of Blogworld.