The boys are coming! The boys are coming?

Four of the boys are coming to visit this weekend. We await this with great anticipation. We have mentally boarded up the windows and tied down all loose articles.

Physically, we have stepped up our daily conditioning and are trying to get some extra rest. Last night, I went to the grocery store to make sure we have appropriate food for grandsons. As I went down the list, I noticed green beans...they were between corn dogs and pudding. Two things were wrong with this.... the word "green" and the word "beans". I don't know what it is about green food that puts little people off.

Its not easy being green.....the assumption is that you are related to kermit.....and you don't want to eat frog kin. Also, most people - northerners, tree huggers, health nuts, etc. under cook green food. If it snaps in your mouth, it ain't done.

It is difficult getting little boys to eat beans. I have come up with another approach I may try this weekend. Beans cause methane. I am sure that fact can be translated in such a way that even a four year old would want to ingest beans.

Back to my grocery trip - did you know that corn dogs are in the same freezer case with sea food. No, not pizza, hot pockets, taquitas, or chicken parts, but sea food. I am not sure who decided that breaded hot dogs on a stick should go with sea food, but they were at least creative.

Now, I am slightly overweight my self - when I have a stomach ache, I hurt all over. So, I am always a little self conscious when I get to the check out and wonder if the clerk is noticing what I am buying. I did resist the urge to blurt out - "its not for me, I am buying it for a friend" - but I figured she had heard that before. That's why self checkout is so wonderful - you don't have to mentally explain what you bought, and you can get your senior citizen discount (which by the way the clerk did not give me)

I did buy applesauce (light green), the corn dogs and pudding. I also got cookie dough (so we could make them together), and a few other things.

Life is good when you aren't responsible to the long term care and feeding of little ones.

As usual, I am already looking forward to the things that they will say and do that my wife and I will laugh about for days. One never knows what they will say and do - but you can bet that each and everyone of them will create a memory that will last days, weeks, and months beyond this weekend.

And just five months from now, we can begin to have these moments with A.

Ain't life good.