Caught off guard

This evening was open house at the girls' school, Joan Austin. In each room, there were various projects to look at and activities to do. Brynn had a very nice display with pictures, a small timeline of her life with important dates she selected, and a collection of "artifacts" or important things she has had in her life. It was very nice.

Jolee also had some prepared work for us to look at. One booklet titled was All About Me and contains short tidbits and facts about herself. in particular, page #1 threw me for a loop. A scan of that page is to the right.

My little girl misses the great-grandfather she barely knew. I started to tear-up right in the classroom. You see, she's talking about my father's father, my Gramps. He died in 2002 when Jolee was only one year old. I understand part of the reason she thinks about this is our family videos which show him smiling at her, waving, and getting down on the carpet to hold her up to practice walking......

But to read this that she calls her dream means that he is more important to her than I realized. That really choked me up.

Here is a snippet of her great grandpa from a family video. It shows him playing with her, and then when he was put into the hospital, with her playing on his bed. This has always been a very dear video to us: