UNDER A CHILD’S SPELL
Our friend Michelle brought her two grandchildren to visit Deborah and me…
they brought with them two beautiful smiles…
They live up north but to Michelle’s delight…they are staying with her for a while…
Two weeks with two grandchildren is a wonderful treat…
All the joy and love they are gaining…
But after a few days…although the joy and love were still going strong…
Michelle’s energy was waning.
For you see young grandchildren do not run out of energy…
In fact somehow their energies strengthen when combined….
And as they ran up the driveway and into our house…Michelle dragged in behind.
But we were ready for their mischief…their playfulness…and their mayhem…
for now there would be three of us…and only two of them.
They played with Bella, the dog we are watching….
Our house they immediately adorned…with beauty, with innocence with vitality…
Why they even made me into a unicorn.
Later they made Michelle into a unicorn as well…the things we’ll do when under a child’s spell…and even though Michelle obviously wore it better…I like to think I wore it well.
We did things we used to do with our grandchildren…memories we still hold dear….
Together we performed a few magic tricks…I even made one of them disappear.
But our energy level was subsiding…while theirs seemed every minute to renew…
So we invited Alexa, our neighbor over…Making the odds now 4 to 2.
It was a wonderful visit…playing with young grandchildren again
watching all our lives overlap…
and when they left we did what old people do…we put ourselves down for a nap.
Not before reliving our few moments together…before nodding off to sleep…moments making memories…memories we shall forever keep….
Thanking Michelle for the opportunity….for sharing her grandchildren…
feeling blessed…
and wondering if in the next two weeks…
Michelle will ever get to rest.
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