Reunion, a Day in the Life

Winter break, the best time of the year. Not because there is no school, but because it's time for the Family Reunion. Upon arrival at Bubby's there were cookies to be found in big Tupperware containers atop the china cabinet. If it's a cookie, you could find it, peanut butter, Oatmeal Raisin, Brownies, and of course the famous chocolate chip. Don't worry that they will run out, there are more in the garage(if the grandkids sleeping in there didn't eat them all for a midnight snack). And hey, Bubs will always pick a couple of grandkids and make more.
After cookies, it's bed time. But who's sleeping where with whom? After many minutes of arguing it always ends up the same, the little ones in the play room, #9 and #10 in the office, #1 and #4 in the Den, the boys in the garage. If we're all really quite, we can hear the adults playing Trivial Pursuit in the dining room.

When morning finally rolls around(not before 0800) Grampy can be found eating half a grapefruit and a bowl of shredded wheat with equal. There's a choice of sugar cereals for anyones taste on the second self of the pantry, and cookies for desert. If you want to read the paper, just make sure you put it back EXACTLY the way you found it, cause that's Bubby's paper.

What's to be done in the warm winter sunshine at Bubby's? Bike riding and tree climbing of course! Don't worry if you don't know how, #1 would be happy to teach you on the yellow banana seat. But you can't cross any streets. Fancy a climb in the tree? There's a chair on the porch you can use to climb up, but don't go too high, and take turns on the swing or you'll go inside. Or maybe football suits you better. The boys and Uncles have a game going in the street. Just make sure you close the door so as not to let the dog out.

Lunch is made of left overs, and of course cookies for dessert, but put your can of soda in a cup. After lunch maybe we'll colour with Grampy, or do a puzzle. There's all kinds of things to do to avoid the homework assigned of break. But don't worry about that, Uncle Lenny will write a note to your teachers.

After lunch we'll just hang out, maybe do art with Grampy, or play fetch with the dog, but everything stops at 3 o'clock for Beaver and Bonanza. Everything that is except making cookies or dinner.

After a delicious dinner of Lasagna(the trick is to spatula around the sides), or maybe Bert made chicken and biscuits, it's time for more cookies, or some other good desert. But only if your hands and plate are clean. And then let's all head into the den for sweatshirts, but first, sound-off!