Sunday, January 31, 2010
Dinner with the Girls...
01/31/2010
You don’t have to know them to love them. Jessica, the granddaughter, and A.K, her BFF are both fifteen; both are very beautiful young ladies; both very intelligent, but both very fifteen.
The Nancy and I had dinner with them last night. We had a blast. The girls, Jessica typically quiet around us when just with us, unless she wants something, became alive with A.K. present. A.K. is a talker, without a shy bone in her body. If they survive adolescence unscathed, both will find success in adulthood, on that I have no doubt in my mind, provided, that is, they can learn to utter a sentence that is not punctuated with a repetitive “like” between every other word.
I am in love with both these girls; they are just a joy to be with. I fully suspect had The Nancy and I just taken Jessica to dinner the conversation would have been more just between the two of us than the three of us. I get the distinct feeling Jessica is not enamored with having to satisfy the need of her grandparents to spend time one-on-one with her, but she does it for her Maw-Maw.
The most interesting part of our time with these wonderful young people was listening to them rag on their parents. It was as if these two were the first teenagers to realize what old-fashioned, boring, so-un-with-it idiots, whose sole purpose for being on the planet is to make their lives unbearable, were made by God to be their parents. Why couldn’t they have cool parents like some of their friends? We listened to their complaints and acknowledged their pain, all the while chuckling on the inside knowing we had similar experiences a million years ago ourselves.
I so want these girls to grow into educated, productive, English-speaking adults, and to find success in their chosen field and in who they truly are. I sincerely hope the path to it is without major obstacles getting in the way. And my biggie is, I hope I live long enough to see both of them with daughters of their own who think they are “psychotic” and beyond reason.
And that is all I have to say about that…