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Show together at the same time. We had wonderful times interlaced with a few fights and arguments when someone did not get their own way. You don't see kids out playing play-ing together in their yards anymore. any-more. They do play together sometimes at the park or the school but you don't see them outside running wild like we did, very often. However, the other day I was working at the kitchen sink and could see the neighbor boys. They were working on a project which I could not see as the fence was in the way, but they were hustling and bustling and calling to one another. I never could see what the project was but they were sure working hard on it. It is refreshing to see the kids playing outside, getting some fresh air, and using their arms and legs rather than sitting in the house playing games on the computer that kids do a lot now-a-days. As I watched them it brought back a flood of memo- by Marcella Walker Our little granddaughter, she is really not little anymore as she is eight years old and comes to the top of my chest already, but she is our youngest grandchild in the area, had an accident and fell just as she was getting to school the other day. She crash lands a lot and we are kind of used to the bumps and bruises. The school called her parents and her dad called me to see if she could stay with us the rest of the day. We were happy to have her here because she brings a ray of sunshine to two older folks who need a child around to spark things up. It reminded me of when I was a young girl. My mother asked me once if I ever looked where I was walking because I came home with bleeding knees frequently. I have always felt that it was better to look toward the gorgeous sky than the blah sidewalk, but I try to watch the sidewalk more now that I know if I fell I could probably not get up without help. Anyway, it is fun having Addie here because she likes to play games and so do I. Since I was a child back in the days of World War II, us kids often played games. There was no TV or computers in those days and the Saturday matinee at the theater only came around once a week. As a result we played games. We played inside the house games in the winter and outside the house games in the summer. We also read a lot. So Addie and I played games all day long. Of course, the games we played were children's chil-dren's games and she won most of them. I used to let her win but now she is as good at the games as I am and her memory is even better than mine, so she has her fair share of wins. Sometimes more than her fair share. I have noticed that kids don't play games outside like we did when we were kids. A good day in the summer saw us playing all kinds of games out in the yard. Sometimes the whole neighborhood of kids played ries of when I was young and we played outside all day long. We were always building build-ing a fort, catching bugs, running run-ning and jumping and playing games. So, having a grandchild who is only eight years old around for a day is great for me. I loved it. I was sorry she fell and got her face and knees scraped up but I was happy to have her there for the day. We even ate lunch out at Taco Amigo! |