Grandma Deb

"When is Grandma Deb going to be here?" This is what I had to hear all morning on Saturday. The girls LOVE when Grandma Deb comes to visit and when they know she's coming, they won't stop asking for her until she gets here. They spent a good part of Saturday morning looking out the window for her red convertible to pull in the driveway and anxiously awaited the gifts she would bring.

Jayson and I love Grandma Deb's visits too. It means we get a night out and we can sleep in the next morning when she takes them to get donuts. Grandma Deb comes about once a month. Whenever we need somebody to watch the girls, she jumps at the chance. In fact, she's gotten mad at me before when we didn't ask her first.

Strange things happen when Grandma Deb visits, though. When we come home late at night, we never know what we're going to find. Once we came home to every measuring spoon we own (two sets) in the sink, and another time, glitter all over the deck. Sometimes discoveries don't happen until the next morning, like when I woke up in the morning to change Lydia's diaper (when she was little), and it was on backwards. Or, recently when the girls told me that Grandma Deb let them have "one of those granola bars" for a snack before bed. Knowing that we didn't have granola bars, I asked them to show me, and they pointed me to the Clif Bars. At least they got their protein for the day.

This past Saturday, we got home earlier than expected, at around 9:00, which is still well past the girls' bedtime. Lucky Grandma Deb sleeps with the girls on the futon. They insist on it. When we got home, we could still hear them giggling and whispering before falling asleep, so we went in to give hugs and kisses to say goodnight. Lydia had green cat whiskers drawn on her face. I took her into the bathroom to wash them off, and she looked at her toothbrush and said, "I didn't brush my teeth."

Grandma Deb may not do things the way we would, but we know everything she does is out of love. We know that when our girls are with Grandma Deb, they are loved, they are safe, and they are happy. That's what matters to us. We are so thankful for her!