Plain and Simple is Enough

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This husband and I…

Were excited to have those boys of ours stay for five days…but one of us was worried that two old folks…for that long…might get a bit boring…

Finished up cinnamon rolls and cereal day one…8 am…there it was already…a little sigh…the what now silence…proverbial twiddling of the 8 year old thumbs…

What do you usually do in the morning after breakfast…one of us asked while she was doing dishes…the response…unexpected for living in the dark ages me…

Not watch cartoons…play outside…or read books like days of yore…but play video games…cool video games…on the giant TVs…with power sound and 3D graphics…

And just like that…it was Old Gal go time…dust off that Mario Kart from 1996…break out Pirate Pop Up and Banana Blast from the retired teacher’s cupboard…

Make two very grown up boys play the Little Mermaid card game from 1993 because some little girls from long ago loved it so very much...

And it was enough…played games…ate licorice…walked the neighborhood…watched the cat…got ice cream…played more games…ate more licorice…

It was fun…a step-back-in-time-this-is-the-kind-of-thing-we-do-at-Grandpa’s-house kind of fun…simple…unique…special…

It was five days…of perfect…
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And that husband of mine…agrees…