Thursday, April 28, 2011

He May Be Grandpa But He's Still Old

Words uttered by granddaughter 2.1.

Intention - slowing down the assaults of 2.2 and 2.3

Mrs. de-I and I are back in Pass-a-Grille FL visiting the 2 and 2B clan. Ever ambitious and ever moving, Daughter 2 has passed all the requirements to become a Foreign Service Officer (Diplomatic Corps). She starts training for her new job the end of May. That means the whole family will be moving to Washington, D.C. for anywhere from three months to 9 months before she gets her first overseas assignment.

So this is our last trip to the little oasis in Florida and we are fully immersing ourselves in the experience. So within hours of arriving, I was in in the pool with the grand kids playing our usual games of mayhem and physical abuse - that's mostly physical abuse of grandpa.

Hence the comment from 2.1. I think that it means the role of "grandpa" is this child like wild man when he plays with us but that they (the kids) should take into account that he is in fact not a kid.

5 comments:

terri said...

She had your best interests at heart, however misguided the words appeared when they came out of her mouth.

She has a point. Us geezers tend to be a bit on the fragile side.

Michael Podolny said...

No worry Terri, I knew she was trying to keep me in one piece - so I would still be available to be beat up on later in the week :)

alexis said...

there is a granddaughter who is thinking about conserving resources for the future!

Anonymous said...

best of luck to your daughter in D.C.!

Mike said...

Old? Pish! Pretty sure I just read about you hiking to the top of a mountain in the desert.