Stories of a Fairy Grandmother

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

These tiny hands

have this man

wrapped very tightly...

but when Grandpa would not let her go into the street, she crawled quickly to

her Daddy, and he said, "Wouldn't that mean Grandpa let you go in the road?"

And she cried for an hour and a day and told him all about it...

Monday, September 13, 2010

Wearing Mama's dressie

Uh oh Mama, seems your baby has more hair than you did!

And to take a quote from my Baby Wild Blonde Boy,

"Nobody loves me and I need new shoes!"

Monday, August 30, 2010

Today I bequeath to you one little girl in a crisp dress, two twinkling eyes and a happy laugh that ripples all day long and a flash of curly hair that bounces in the sun when she runs. I trust you will treat her well. She's slipping out the backyard of my heart this morning and skipping off down the street to her first day of school and never again will she be completely mine. No longer will she have time to sit on the front porch steps on a summer day and watch an ant scurry across the crack in the side walk. Nor will she have time to pop out of bed with the dawn and kiss the lilac blooms in the morning dew. The books and learning will replace the blocks and dolls. She'll find new heroes. For 5 full years I've been her sage and Santa Claus and pal and playmate and father and friend...But today I'll stand and watch her start out on that long, lonely journey to becoming a woman.

So world, I bequeath to you today...