PawPaw's Words

An Email from PawPaw (Brent & Stacey's Dad)

Stace,

"HOW IRONIC"

Grandmother, Grandfather, and Grandma Batts stopped by the other night and brought dinner. They pulled into the driveway in front of me as I getting home from work. Grandfather gets the wheel chair out of the trunk and we help Grandma Batts get in it for the short stroll to the kitchen steps, then we help her get out of the chair and make it into the kitchen.

I look over and there is ViviAnne, sitting on a pillow in one chair and her legs propped up in another chair in front of her. She sits there, rubbing her eyes as if she is tired, but I think she is just worn out, it has been a long day.

"HOW IRONIC"

After dinner I took Coop for a Gator (a Gator is a John Dere Utility Vehicle) ride. It was funny, Brent and I were standing in your mom's garage and Brent says,"watch this." He hands Coopie the keys to the Gator and that little turd took the keys, walked to my garage, climbed up in the gator and tried to put the key in the ignition. Luckily he has not figured that part out exactly yet. I put on his his hat and we went for a ride.

After our ride we went into the living room and everyone was sitting there talking, Brent and Coopie were playing on the floor, etc., and it dawned on me; here is Grandma Batts going on 93 years old, sitting there in her chair, leaning over to the side of the chair and trying to talk over Brent and Coop playing. You know how she talks with that slow quiet voice and I look over at Vivianne and there she sits on the couch, leaning over on Kristen, the words coming out of her mouth are slow and quiet.

Everyone decides it is time to go home and me and Brent help Grandma trying to get up out of the chair and into her wheel chair. I then look over at Kristen bending over and picking up ViviAnne to carry her to the car.

We go outside and Kristen puts Vivianne in her car seat. Then Grandma Batts waddles slowly over to the car, leans in and gives ViviAnne a kiss.

"HOW IRONIC"

To see the almost 93 year old Grandma and this precious almost 3 year old kiss and part ways as to say "hang in there". You watch these two and you realize the are both fighting their battles at 90 years difference in age.

DAD