Tea and Other Ramblings

Where, oh where has Pat been all these months??? Well. I haven't been travelling around the world, if that's what you're thinking !! No, I have been right here at home enjoying the company of my family. As you know, Matt, Marca, and Gracie came home just before Christmas last year, having finished with their international experience for a while. Matt had some time before starting his clinical rotations and Marca was offered a job at Mt. Pisgah Academy, where they both used to teach. So guess who had daily "dates" with Gracie? Yep, me. What a wonderful time it has been to have them home.

Graice has grown so much - not just taller (although she certainly has done that) - but in her mannerisms and personality. She has such a lovely little way about her and is very polite but also very astute at the same time. And now the questions. She is beginning to ask the questions about how things work and why and what does this word mean and who are these people and how are they related to us and just exactly what is a cousin, niece, nephew, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, and what in the world is a second cousin ??? She still has some moments that, for all her maturity, she still isn't much older than a baby. She sometimes can settle for no one but her Mommy and no amount of comfort will help. But then she will turn around and comfort you if you appear down or if you don't feel good. She is charming in her little mannerisms and the way that she talks to you and she likes to have her Gramsy's attention as much as she can get it.