Clarity

Clarity

We’ve had a whirlwind Easter and are winding down for the evening. French Toast in the AM followed by an Easter egg hunt and special surprises and then on to the swimming pool for another 5 hours of sun and fun. Wow. I blew off yoga but said my prayers anyway.

Our favorite five year old dolphin girl hardly took time to eat lunch as she honed her skills from one end of the pool to the other. Mask and fins are a slam dunk already and the snorkel is working its way into the show more and more each day. Her 6 month old brother watched the happenings intently and took a few chances to let his feet dangle in the water while being held. The water feature at the other end of the pool spurted out about as much water as the drool his teething mouth emitted so it was a competition all day as to who could be better in the flow. The six month old was a shoe in.

One awkward grandpa moment was when I asked the dolphin girl to spit into her scuba mask to decrease the fogging only to find out that she did not know how to do it. “Spit” I said and she did a raspberry. “No Dolphin Girl, get a bunch of moisture in your mouth and spit it into the glass, wipe it around and then rinse it out of the mask before you put it on”…………………more raspberries……..I took the mask turned my back to her so as to not spoil her innocence and “did the deed” for her and for the sake of “clarity”. The Grandsons and I would already have a distance game going; I could not bring myself to explain further to the “flippered one”.

I was in and out of the water with her during the day, going through our doubles routine(s).  Distance swimming, spins, shoulder stands and other forms of showing off for Grammy and Mom……… Oh, yes, she showed off too.

We were very fortunate to have Dolphin Girl and her Mom living with us from 0 to 4 and are so happy to have them back in the fold after some time apart. The “commercial interruption period” feels at times to have been a “blink” and at other times “endless”. Having the new bonus of the 6 month old “King” as part of these new visits is an added plus we are savoring minute by minute.

During these visits there is a lot of cuddling, storytelling and questions. Cuddling reminds us all what our love feels like, the stories confirm what we feel in our hearts and our memories and the questions offer a bit of clarity for those times when things are just not adding up………

Throughout the afternoon while I lay out on the Chaise getting some sun, I would glance over at dolphin girl taking the mask off and trying her best to spit. Time and time again she would work intently at it and then just shake her head, not fully understanding the “why” ,  until she decided to try it again .........and again ..........and again……………for clarity.