Ever-rolling tide

Well, Daughter and Littlest Granddaughter came, we had a lovely time and now they've gone again. Littlest spent a lot of time practising with scissors.

 She also enjoyed playing with our 37-year-old Fisher Price till.

She and I went to the museum, where she unearthed some bones.

She looked over at this. "What dat, Nganny?"
I considered my answer. "Well... ."
"It a dinosaur, Nganny." (Don't you know anything?.)

On Sunday, the other grandchildren came over/down and they played together.

Here are all the girls in the spare bedroom. Biggest Granddaughter inducted Medium into the joys of dressing up as Batgirl and Supergirl.

We went to the playpark.

Five little ducks on swings!

And then they all went away and, probably foolishly, we watched a video of when we were young and the children were small. Who on earth is that slim young woman with thick dark hair?? Hmm, and I thought I was fat then. Hah! Here I am, holding my darling baby son, who now lives half way up a hill in Angus with his wife, daughter and his own darling baby son.

And here are our girls, now living hundreds of miles apart.

Just as well I didn't know at the time that this would be the case.

Of course we all grow up and grow old. It would be so nice if we didn't, though.... Let's just keep everyone just as they are. Would that work?

So it's just Mr L and me. It'll be a peaceful day tomorrow. Happy Christmas, all.