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Friday, January 14, 2011
LAUGHTER AT ITS BEST
The most wonderful part of being a grandparent is that it almost always is a part-time job.
You get to hold, hug, hover, and hurrah - but at some point, you also get to go home.
Alone.
Since my own grandchildren are 896 miles away (give or take a mile or so), I occasionally play Grannie to a little one at church.
And yes, I do try to pick a baby off of the most exhausted or frustrated young mother at services.
Sunday, I indulged my insane inclination to baby-nap, and took over one of my favorite babies - Obadiah (cool name, eh?) - in Sunday School.
And could not keep myself from making him giggle - again, and again, and again.
Which made everyone in the class smile - again, and again, and again.
It was great.
We need to do more giggling at church.
And since I work with 14 and 15 year old girls at church, I get to do a lot of it already.
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Oh man, I wish you would come visit my ward. I need an extra Grannie.
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