Nana Judi

Those of you who read Jenni’s blog already know about Aidan’s imaginary wife.  She hasn’t shared the story he told me, so I’ll have to share with you myself.

A couple of weeks ago I went up for the week-end, and since they have the new van there is now room for me to ride with them.  Sunday morning on the way to church, after driving just a short time, Chris pulled over, got out and opened and shut the  slider door on the side of the van.  That reminded me of a little boy in Tacoma who had fallen out the door of his family’s van on the freeway and was killed.  I asked Jenni if she had heard about that and she said she hadn’t.  We discussed this for a while, and when we had finished, Aidan, who didn’t interupt us at all, said, very matter-of-factly, “My wife was riding in a car, and the door opened and she fell out, and another car was coming, and it hit her, and hurt her leg.  So the doctor came and they took her in the Ambliance to the Hostible and checked out her leg.”

Jenni and I were just about dying by this time, but I managed to keep a straight face and asked him, “Was her leg broken?”

“Yeah”, he replied, very   seriously.

“Did they take an X-Ray?”

“Yeah.”

“Did you know Nana takes X-rays?  When Nathan broke his arm Nana took the X-ray.”

“Oh, did they put a bandage on it?”

“Yes, they put a kind of hard bandage, called a cast, on it.”

“Oh, did you know my wife takes X-a-rays?”

“She’s very versatile, isn’t she?”

“Yes, and she’s very brave.”

I don’t know how we managed to keep from totaly howling with laughter, but somehow we did.  I’ve told this story many times in the last couple of weeks, and several people have encouraged me to write it down, so here it is!  Today I was telling it, again, to my lady while I was doing her mammogram, and she said, “It’s great that you have grandkids to tell stories about to us ladies to distract us from what you’re doing to us!”

After church we were waiting for Jenni to come out of Starbucks when he piped up with, “I want to go to Howard’s”.  Howard is my mother’s husband, but Aidan never calls him Howard, he always calls him Grandpa, so we were not sure if that was who he meant.  Chris asked him, “Who is Howard?”

“You know, he lives in his house with his wife.”

“Who is his wife?”

“Great-Grandma…not Great-Grandma Esther…”

“Great-Grandma Webster?”

“Yeah.”

I had to tell that one to Howard, who was quite pleased, since he has a very high opinion of Aidan!

Well, Jenni and I have several things in common, one of which is we  like to get on the computer late at night.  We both have jobs that keep us busy during the day!   I guess I should get to bed, even though I don’t have to go to work in the morning!  I told Jen “I’m going to turn off the alarm and not get up ’til I wake up!”  She said, “Me too, I just hope it’s not at 5:00 AM!”  Lucky for me I don’t have anyone to wake me up before I’m ready!