Memmy's

Today we went and visited Memmy..John's grandmother and the kids' great-grandmother. It is a shame that we don't see her more often or for that matter all of the great grandparents but it really is hard to get a visit into everyone all the time. We are trying to do a better job of that. We decided as one of our service projects that it would be good to "serve" our great grandparents since we want to respect and love our elders and since they have done so much for us over the years. We took lunch to Memmy's house and had a picnic with her. Her and John's Aunt Kim live together and they have a cute new house. Kim has a way with decorating and picks out trinkets from all over town that make the place really cute. She has cute rockers on the porch and pretty flowers everywhere. It looks like an all American kind of home. Emily came away from the visit wanting to decorate our back porch like theirs and buy some new decorations for her bedroom. I told her she needed to get a job :) We had a nice visit with Memmy. John used to live next door to Memmy and Kim when he was in college and Memmy took good care of him and our dog Samson. When we were cooking for her this morning, I was talking to the kids about who we were going to see and why we were going to see her etc. John Daniel said, "she is the small one." He means this in a very sweet way. They think she is cute because she is "little." John Daniel is already over half her size! We made her a fruit pizza for dessert. The kids designed the top of it and it read "We love U" in blueberries. Afterwards, we went to see the movie "UP" which funny enough is about an elderly man and his relationship with this little boy and what he teaches the little boy and what the boy in return teaches him. It had a serious tone to it even though it was a cartoon....just a sweet movie about an elderly man and his dreams. We decided that our theme of the day was teaching the kids to love and respect our elders and we sure do have some sweet "Grand people" in our lives!!! P.S. Memmy wouldn't like it that I posted these pics b/c she had just gone to the dermatologist and has a bandaid on her nose but we think they are sweet pictures!