It is so nice to be a Grandma!!!

It is so nice to have my granddaughter, Elsa, visit. This is the first time she has stayed more than a day or two. I had forgotten how tired a nearly four year old can make you. She makes me smile. I am so proud of her father for teaching her many of the values I taught him. She has a love of life. She is inquisitive and has her father's imagination. When she smiles, I see that she has my smile...My best feature. Elsa loves the alpacas and she is so proud of being our "farmer girl." It is something to watch her help in the barn. She is now leading our alpaca Lady Morningstar. I think they think of each other as equals. She watched a dung beetle burrow under the gravel in the barn. She was fascinated when I showed her the newly emerged locust drying its wings. The neatest thing is watching what I must have been like as a child. Like her grandmother and her father, her mind is so full of ideas and she never tires of tell what she is thinking. I worked on the computer with her, where she investigated letters in different fonts and made some greeting cards. We swam, checked the gardens, sorted through some boxes that are full of items needing a place in our home. We colored, went to the library, read books, picked out fabric and played paper dolls. How I would have hated to miss knowing this fantastic child. I look forward to when her brother will be old enough to come and spend special time with grandma and grandpa. How did I ever deserve to have these children in my life?