We’ve had a change in plans for the weekend. We’d been planning a trip to a state park in
Tennessee. We were going to stay in a
hotel…eat ice cream…swim in the pool…and then hike this awesome park that has a
gorgeous waterfall. The girls were all
excited about it, and so were we.
But over the last few days our babysitter options for this
coming week, when Daddy has three all-day meetings, narrowed. And then they disappeared.
We talked about a couple of different options, and then
Thursday night, we made a last-minute call to Sweet Home Alabama. I asked GG if she could come help us for the
week, and of course she was thrilled.
Friday morning I called Dad, and he was excited to know we’d be coming
down, too.
I was a little nervous to tell the girls, worried that they’d
be upset that our waterfall adventure would have to be postponed. (This is actually the second postponement,
the first being earlier in the summer due to weather.)
Before breakfast on Friday morning, I told the girls we had
some thing we needed to talk about. “You
know Mommy and Daddy have been working to figure out a babysitting option for
next week, right? And you know that Miss
Jennifer and Miss Jenny are not available?
Well...” I asked them, drawing it out and piquing their interest, “who
would actually be the very best babysitter in the whole wide world???”
The girls’ eyes lit up as they tried to think. “She doesn’t live in this town,” I added.
“GG!!!!!!!” they exclaimed in unison. They were so excited to know she was coming
to hang out with them for the week.
“So…that means that instead of going to the waterfall, we’ll
be going to Alabama.”
“YAY!!!!!!!” They
didn’t miss a beat. “Do we get to see
Granddaddy???” they asked immediately.
When I told them yes, they lit up even more. And then Baby A added, “Wow!!! We got to see him
last month, too!!!”
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| Taken in late February. L-O-V-E. |
1 comment:
Love that they value people more than their own wants :)
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