Erin and Leah and Ava and I met up for an impromptu lunch yesterday.  I love these informal gatherings.  It’s like an uplifting little present in the middle of a tough work day.  We stopped first at a Pottery Barn and Ava and I discovered the absolute best place to hide was in the rug rack.  After a few games of “YOU CAN”T FIND US” with Leah and Erin playing Sherlock Holmes and Watson, we headed out to lunch.   An hour later I headed back home with Ava in tow to put her down for a nap so that Leah could have a few hours of toddler-free silence to run some errands.

We snuggled up to read several books prior to the nap but when I went to leave, Ava got uncharacteristically aggressive.  She jumped all over the bed laughing loudly trying to entice me to stay.  Then she moved the pillow on my head and jumped!  This is one time Grandma was happy to have a little meat on her bones.  If I was one of those spindly elderly grandmas with brittle bones I think she could have done me in!

I moved 35 pounds of pillow and toddler off of me and said sternly, “Please don’t smother Grandma,” to which she replied, “That hurt my feelings.”   Don’t you just love how kids’ minds work?  A few minutes later she settled down for her nap and I went back to work with a smile on my face and the cozy feeling of a sleeping child upstairs.