Snow and Swimming Pools

What's wrong with this picture? We're having our swimming pool opened by the pool people next Wednesday, April 1. We woke up this morning with snow all over the ground. Huh?

We've enjoyed several 80-degree days, and so it seemed natural to hurry and get the pool de-winterized and ready to use. Now we've had snow.

We also ordered several trees and plants from a catalog order place our kids told us about. They've arrived, but somehow planting in the snow doesn't seem right.

But, that's Oklahoma. It's supposed to be 70 and above in the next few days, so hopefully we can plant then.

I'm ready for spring. I actually thought "spring had sprung" as of last Friday. Our tulips have bloomed and our trees have budded. And now they have snow all over them.

I actually like these surprises. Makes me realize all over again how much life is an adventure, the unexpected is often right around the corner.
MB

Grandson's Twins

Here I am with Kyle and Aaron, twins born March 9.

Did you notice the heading? Grandson's twins somehow sounds better to me than my twin great-grandsons.

I became a grandmother at the age of 39, and somehow at that time I just wasn't ready to be called, Grandma. I still had a grade school child at home and still felt young, much too young to answer to Granny.

I adored and loved my new granddaughter, but it was the Granny thing. Actually we settled on Grams, which was better. After more grandchildren came at a pretty fast pace, I became used to being Grams to thirteen wonderful grandchildren.

But, time moves on. Two years ago our grandson had our first great-grandson. Again, I just wasn't quite ready for the great-grandma title. Now I have three great-grandsons. I'm getting used to the great grandma title. Maybe I can be Great Grams or GiGi. That sounds younger, doesn't it? JK

Way back when I was a teenage Mom, I thought great grannies were old, old, and quite decrepit. Funny that when you get into that age bracket, it's not that way at all. I wonder if young people look at me and know that I'm a great granny. Hmmm...

I'll conclude with a joke: An older couple was sitting in a bar and the wife looked down at the end of the bar and saw an elderly couple and said to her husband, "That's the way we're going to look in ten or twenty years." The husband said, "You know that's a mirror, don't you?" Too funny. My sentiments exactly!
MB