This weekend, a bunch of crazy mamas got together in Atlanta, with all our kids in tow. Becca, Sol and Rose let me and Emmy ride with them to visit with Mary Margaret, Maggie Grace and Rachel. Joy, Julia and John B rode with Keeli and Chloe earlier on Friday and met us there. We had so much fun in our short trip!!! We got up Saturday and went to the aquarium and then headed to Ikea. It was fabulous. That night we actually went out on a grown up dinner!!!!
Just in case someone got lost at the aquarium, Aunt Becca wrote a phone number on everyone’s arm. Once, Emmy Ruth slipped away a little and when I was talking with her about how dangerous it was, I asked her what could happen if she got lost. She looked at me and said, ‘umm…’ and pointed at her arm with the number. Well played, Kid, well played. Emmy loved being the second oldest, next to Chloe and loved to talk about her new friend, “you know, her” and gesture towards Chloe. It was really the first time they got to hang out together and it was so sweet. Chloe is an excellent model for them.
The Meyers live in an awesome town outside of Atlanta, Peachtree City. It’s a golf community so we got to ride on a golf cart to dinner and the kids loved riding the cart to the park. I can’t say how thankful we are for our friends and our family. We are so very lucky.
Because of the big weekend, Emmy and I took off Monday and had a girls day. We hit up the children’s museum and then went to Walmart to spend a gift card Nana had given her for her birthday. I can’t remember what got Emmy talking about it but she was in the shopping cart and talking about how her grandmother talked to her. I kind of ignored it and then she said, ‘I know she’s in heaven, but she is also in my heart and talks to me.’ I managed to hold it together just long enough to tell her how that she was absolutely right. I told her that I just knew that if her grandmother could see her, she would be so proud of her for being so smart and so kind and so sweet. “Mama, she does see us; she sees us every day from heaven.” And then I cried in Wal-Mart.
2 comments:
Oh Tara, that's so sweet. Children are so resilient aren't they? Chloe's very, very special cat Goochman came up missing last summer and she's been writing to him ever since, they are the sweetest letters. When I lost my first dog, Emmy, a few years back from bone cancer, I cried for months at the drop of a hat and one day Chloe came in the kitchen pointing at me and shaking her finger at me saying, "mama! Stop with the tears..." She was 6 years old and now at 11, she's got them over her sweet cat. Hotlanta was a blast and I'm glad ya'll had Monday to hang out together. Emmy is so sweet and so smart. Let's get them together soon! :)
What a sweet story, Tara. We talk about Grandma here a lot, too. It just breaks your heart, doesn't it? Becca loves to tell the babies about Grandma and that she's in heaven. I know exactly how you feel.
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