....."It's all about the memories"....

.....Hi there, I have spent the last 2 weeks wearing my grandma hat...it was lots of fun, but I have to admit...I am not as young as I used to be..LOL.  My daughter and her crew left this morning, and I have spent today, collecting things that were forgotten , changing beds, emptying the fridge of further 'temptations' and restoring some normalcy.
   A word of warning, about the only fun activity that did not take place is anything related to spanking.  That will resume soon, M keeps scratching his palm.  But this post has nothing to do with spanking or submission...if that is what you are looking for...you are excused for today.
  When my kids were little every time we would go visit my mom and dad, my mom would come up with something that would have me saying...really mom???  If you have read here for a while, you know that she would bring up a tray for them to have breakfast in bed...a bowl of ice cream with dishes of various toppings..and a glass of milk..so it was healthy, was one of many....'memory making ' moments she would come up with. And yes....they do remember memere and the fun they had with her still today.
  Seems I have happily inherited that gene.  Thought I would share one of those fun times we had on this visit.  My grandson (7) loves to cook. For Christmas I got him a subscription for a once a month delivery of a menu, a book to keep them in, a child sized cooking utensil and all the dry ingredients.  He has loved it...there were breakfasts, salad, desserts and meals.  Not all of it stuff he would eat, but as he explained to his mom....chefs cook for others..they do not have to like what they are cooking.
   So, as a  thank-you he wanted to cook a complete meal while he was visiting for everyone.  With his mom's help, it took most of an afternoon to make a salad, stuffed chicken, pasta, garlic bread and individual lava cakes for dessert. When dinner was almost ready I had the sudden idea that I should 'dress' for dinner, since it was so special. I whispered to my daughter to let me know when it was ready, I was going up to change for dinner...she looked at me....but I said I just want H to know I appreciate his efforts.
   I got to my room and was looking in my closet ...when suddenly....I  thought....a very special dinner, should be a very special guest...who is more special than the QUEEN???  So I rummaged quickly, and came up with a long shimmery summer dress, I wrapped a white summer shawl around the top, added lots of long necklaces, and...since  I collect frogs...I have lots of frog pins as jewelry...so added those to the shawl...some fancy flip flops....and the final touch....a large orange headband covered with orange flowers (yes there is a story that goes with that.....). Just as I finished, I heard my daughter call...dinner time.
    I made my appearance, announcing... the Queen had heard that one of her subjects had worked hard on a dinner, so she decided to attend the celebration as a thank you for the meal.  (Luckily, my son got his phone out an took pictures of the kids faces ...all were wide-eyed and large smiles). As an added, thank you, the queen had a large velvet pouch and handed out a gift to the most loyal of her subjects. (I had bought matching July 4th shirts and had not doled them out yet)...so I handed each of the kids their shirt.
   Dinner was indeed very delicious...and the lava cakes...Oh my!!!!  Later, when it was bedtime, my daughter came down stairs and said...the kids said ...grandma always has a funny surprise for us, and this one was really funny!  My son came down and said....the kids asked him where does grandma get all her fun ideas...he said he had no idea!
Mission accomplished
Memories made...
hugs abby