I've been a granny for ten years now but until recently I never realized that I had super powers. Perhaps it was because I worked a full-time job for most of those years and never had the chance to fully develop them.
Now I realize as parents, we can get things done on behalf of our children but I'm finding out that as grannies we carry a bit more punch! It seems that people don't want to mess with us. I kind of like it!
Last week, a more seasoned granny acquaintance of mine showed me her granny powers at a child's birthday party where crafts were being made. One little girl grew reasonably but sweetly impatient of waiting for assistance but was told to just "go sit down, someone will get to you". Before I, myself, could respond, this seasoned granny took the child by the hand and marched right up to this young person and guess what? The little girl received the assistance she needed.
Today is my turn to drop off and pick up my granddaughter at her preschool but I completely forgot that she got out later today and had made arrangements with an appliance repair person to come by this afternoon to fix my oven. I was afraid to call him back because he was kind of grumpy and mean but then I thought - wait a minute - this is my granddaughter we're talking about! So I fearlessly pushed send on my cell phone and told the man that I was unavailable from 1:30-2:30 today and he would need to work around MY schedule because I needed to be there for MY granddaughter. He cheerfully said no problem he could come right over. Of course, I found out this was not the mean person to whom I was originally speaking but his son. But still, my super powers were deployed and worked. There's no stopping me now!
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