SLEDDER

162 – Thursday, June 11, 2009

If you are a regular follower of my blog, then you have probably surmised that there is a predictable pattern which has now emerged. It happens every Thursday when Cynthia and I go sit with our grandson while his mommy works at the law offices for a few hours. You can anticipate that you will read an account of something inspired by my observation of Isaac, and this day is no different - while there are multiple incidentals that provoked my musings, what struck me most today was something that has visited every grandparent that I have ever known – the assessment that reveals how a tiny human will be more enthralled with the wrappings and boxes surrounding holiday presents than he is with the treasures contained within – how he is more thrilled with being spun about in a ‘toboggan’ fashioned from a clothes basket on the ‘icy slopes’ of the Nordic living room carpeting whooshing past the plastic ‘mountain’ of piled toys, now probably needing therapy due to feeling neglected in lieu of the down-hill thrills. I imagine it has more to do with the fact that Poppie is the propeller of the sled (who returns the precious, contagious grins) than the intrinsic cost of the plaything. Poppie is cheap but he is a really fun sledder!!

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