Between Grandparents and Grandchildren

We get to watch a movie in Grandma & Grandpa’s room. They had the biggest bed which we had to climb up onto it. Luckily, Grandpa left the big blow up mattresses on the floor so we could hop onto them to get to the bed. Wow! Hopping on the bed was fun. Our hair flew up above our heads.

We laughed to see how high we could jump. “Oh, oh, grandma came in. was frowning and told us to get down. She didn’t like us playing in her room or touching things. We forgot about the movie, just one more jump and then quickly we hoped down on the floats and ran out of the room.

Everyone was doing something but us. Mom was playing games and wanted us to play elsewhere. We remembered the movie and returned to Grandma & Grandpa’s room. The movie had been started.

The air mattresses had been moved so that one was standing on its side. It looked like a slide. “Let’s try it out.” We hopped onto the bed, jumped up and down and “wee” as we slid down unto the float on the floor. It was like “Boondoggle” with their bouncy floats. We took turns running, jumping, and sliding down.

Eeeek! Grandma was at the door yelling at us to get off and get out. She was so angry at us. We ran away. We hid, what will Grandma do? We’re in trouble. Our moms made us tell Grandma we’re sorry. We really weren’t sorry that we jumped on the bed and had so much fun. But we had to tell Grandma we were sorry for not obeying her.

She said, its okay, that she was afraid we’d get hurt. I think she was a afraid the bed would get hurt too.

It was bedtime but we didn’t want to go to bed. Grandma let us lie on her bed and watch a movie. It got pretty crowded with all of us plus a little brother who took all of the room.
We pushed each other to make room but they wouldn’t budge. Grandma tried to make space for all of us. Some of us left and some stayed. Ashton stayed for the whole show and exclaimed with a big grin, let’s do this again.

Grandma watched us in the hot tub. It was crowded and someone splashed grandma. She jumped and yelled in surprise but she didn’t get mad. The front of her was all wet. Later one of the girls founds a cup of shells and wanted Grandma to give them too her but she wouldn’t.

Latter Grandma passed the bathroom where water and bubbles were running, spilling over unto the floor. We were washing our shells. The cup of shells was filled with water. Grandma yelled at us and turned off the water. She took our shells. In tears we ran to our moms and said that Grandma took our shells. Grandma had spoiled our fun.

Grandma didn't like the mess we made. Soon after Grandma told each of us that she was sorry for yelling. Mom said that Grandma was pretty stressed out. I guess Grandmas get tired too. Our moms sent us off to the bunk house to play so that Grandma could have a time out. We hope Grandma will let us play tomorrow.

Grandma and Grandpa are getting old. When you get old you forget how fun it is to be a kid. Adults stress and worry too much that someone or something will get hurt or broken. To us, the world is our playground, a place to explore our new found freedoms and abilities.

It is an inviting place where bubbles and water become the foaming sea and sea shells great treasures to unearth, and where bouncy beds catapults one into a flight of fantasy. The consequences of actions is unheralded and the process of doing has no fears or limitations.

True, rules and boundaries must be observed for health and safety. But ah, to us children, it is only a momentary bump or pause, all is forgotten and forgiven of those who halted our flight of discovery and soon another adventure begins.

I love my grandma and grandpa.