{"id":33166,"date":"2007-08-15T12:48:02","date_gmt":"2007-08-15T12:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/2007\/08\/15\/working-nana\/"},"modified":"2007-08-15T12:48:02","modified_gmt":"2007-08-15T12:48:02","slug":"working-nana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/2007\/08\/15\/working-nana\/","title":{"rendered":"Working Nana"},"content":{"rendered":"

C’s fifth birthday is coming up soon, and he has been looking forward to it for quite a while. In fact, his little brother’s birthday was back in June, and C was talking about his own birthday even while we were planning that. For the most part, I must say, he has been good about not focussing on the presents.<\/p>\n

One weekend in late May, however, he got a bit sneaky. We were visiting Nana and Grampa at the time, sitting down at their community pool. We had finished with swimming and were just sitting and talking when a couple of other kids arrived with their parents. They immediately brought out a couple of those huge super-soaker squirt guns and started having a squirt gun fight around the pool.<\/p>\n

The kids were fascinated. <\/p>\n

After a little while of watching, C walked over to stand by Nana’s knee. He rested his hand on her knee, stood there for a little bit, and then said “Wow. We’ve never seen those before!”<\/p>\n

His little brother chimed in eagerly. “No, we haven’t!”<\/p>\n

“They’re really cool.”<\/p>\n

“Yeah!”<\/p>\n

“We don’t have anything like that. Do we?”<\/p>\n

“Nope.”<\/p>\n

“Daddy, let’s go play!”<\/p>\n

I went with them to play. Amazingly enough, one of the kids even shared her squirt gun (a dangerous thing to do<\/a>). Seeing the four of them all playing together, I withdrew to the chairs.<\/p>\n

Sure enough, Nana and Grampa arrived at N’s birthday with squirtguns for each of them.<\/p>\n

Now why didn’t that ever work for me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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