Baby Boomer Grandparent

It was Saturday morning and Grammy had many errands to do. She stopped at Jack’s house to see if his mother needed anything. Jack, who is six, was having a bad day. Mom was not happy with him because he had been teasing his younger brothers. Grammy asked Jack if he wanted to come with her to do errands. “Please Mom,” Jack said, “I promise to be good for Grammy”. “Jack is always good when he helps me” said Grammy. “Okay” said Mom, “but you had better behave”.

Jack and Grammy set off on their travels. After Jack was secured in his booster seat he asked Grammy if he could make a list of all the things that had to do. “Sure” said Grammy, “I have a pen and notepad in my purse”. “Where do we have to go first?” asked Jack. “We must go to the bank first” said Grammy, “I will need money for all of my errands.” Jack printed “bank” in his notebook. “Where else?” asked Jack. “Our next stop will be the bookstore so I can buy the book Papa wants” Grammy answered. Jack carefully wrote “bookstore” in his notebook. “Any place else?” asked Jack. “I think we should stop at your brother Ben’s baseball game but first we will stop and but some bubblegum.” “Great” said Jack “I love bubblegum and I guess I like Ben too”. Jack wrote “Ben’s baseball game” and “bubblegum” in the notebook so Grammy wouldn’t forget, especially the bubblegum. Jack was a very good speller. He only had to ask Grammy once to help him spell a word. “Will we be done then?” asked Jack. “One more thing” said Grammy. “We need to buy balloons for Elena’s birthday.” “I forgot today was Elena’s birthday,” said Jack as he added “balloons” to the list. Elena was Jack cousin and she was turning seven today.

“We have a lot of things to do,” said Jack. “When we are all done, we will go to lunch” said Grammy. Jack was very quiet for a few minutes and the he asked Grammy if they could go to brunch instead of lunch. “Why brunch?” Grammy asked. “It will make my list perfect,” said Jack. “Here is what we have to do today.” Grammy read the list Jack has printed neatly in the notebook.

bank

book store

Ben’s baseball game

BUBBLEGUM

balloons

Grammy started to laugh. “We certainly can go to brunch so we can have an all “B” day,” she said. Jack wrote the last thing in the notebook.

BRUNCH!

The only point here is that it is pretty easy to write a short story that your grandchild will remember for a long time.

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