Grandma's word of the day: Palmary
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Today's word is... PALMARY
Definition of palmary (per The Gilded Tongue: Overly Eloquent Words for Everyday Things):
[PAL/PAHL-muh-ree] adjective
From Latin palmarious ...
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Final football photos
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Final football photos!
With Sunday's (spectacular!) Super Bowl marking the end of football season, I figure I should go ahead and share my favorite football photos of the season. Photos I forgot to share soon after they were shot.
My favorite football photos of this past season are — surprise, surprise — of my three desert-dwelling grandsons. Photos not of them playing football, but watching football. Well, even better than watching football, my grandsons were attending their very first professional football game!
Read MoreRapid recovery
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Grandmothers and others know few things prompt panic in a parent's or grandparent's heart quite like a late-night phone call or text from a child. Even an adult child.
I received one such scary communication from my daughter Megan — mom to my grandsons — last Friday night. Granted, it was only 8:30 in the evening, 7:30 her time, but that's not a time my long-distance daughter and I typically talk or text. So my heart indeed flip-flopped a few times upon hearing her ringtone.
Camden hurt himself, she told me.
Long story short: The rambunctious kid had been rambunctioning about (my word) and demonstrating to big brother Brayden how awesome he was at holding his breath. Resulting in Camden — briefly — passing out. And landing, unconscious, on his head on the hard stone tile flooring found throughout much of their house. A tremendous goose egg on his head served as reward for the frightening feat.
Thankfully Megan's sister-in-law is a pediatrician, so...
A cautionary tale: Look before they leap
/Poor Bud — and Brianna — learned a painful lesson the hard way not too long ago. A lesson in something I never really considered, as a parent or as a grandparent.
See, on a recent sunny day, Bud and Brianna headed to the local skatepark. Bud, a budding skateboarder, was excited to spend a couple hours trying out a park he'd not yet frequented. (Truth be told, I think he had frequented very few skate parks — if any — since his passion for boarding began.)
I had babysat Bud that morning, and he mentioned several times the fun he looked forward to that afternoon.
To say the kid was pumped is an understatement.
After lunch that day, Brianna and Bud headed to the skate park. As soon as they arrived, Bud could contain himself no longer. He quickly donned his helmet, grabbed his board, and raced to his first obstacle: an awesome, amazing, yet seemingly (relatively) safe jump.
It looked like this:
Bud figured he'd go up the angled ramp on the front side and down...
Drafted!
/Springtime means baseball time once again, and Bubby has been drafted to the big leagues! Well, a league with big guys.
My lefty grandson Bubby, who first showed promise on the field back in his T-ball days, was invited to try out for a local AAA league — and made it!
The difference between AA and...
