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If I Could Grant ONE Wish!
My kids had Open House at their school the other day. They were soooo excited to show me all the stuff they had made/written specifically for open house, to showcase what they had learned through the year.
Annequin is a very good storyteller. He always has been. He puts sentences together so effortlessly and right now he's being taught to include dialog in his stories, which is neat.
Big Mickey is also a great story teller and there is this one specific story he wrote which I believe the theme might have been "If I could grant one wish" or something because it went a little something like this:
If I could grant one wish it would to my dad. I would buy my dad a new house. The reason I would buy a new house for my family is because my Nana gets tired of walking up and down the stairs.
It went on a bit more but that one sentence really moved me. See, my husband's grandmother moved in with us recently and she walks up and down the stairs very carefully for obvious reasons. Sometimes, she stops in the middle of them and takes a deep breath, then goes on.
He must have noticed that. Or maybe he heard her say something. Who knows. Kids are very observant. They pay attention to even the most minute things and what's worse, it's when you don't expect them to.
Anyways, I was really proud of him for caring about his Nana in that manner. But also, another thing he said in the story was that while everyone was tired of our house, he was the only one that was not. He loves his house, he says! Especially when family comes over.
Well, you know what, I love that too. I love when my house is full of nieces and nephews and aunts and uncles, and grammas. A full home makes a happy home, right?
Now, if we could only get rid of those pesky stairs!!!