Moments of Memories

         "For me, though, two events were more heartwarming than all others before. The first involved getting Brady's little computer running and seeing the look on his face when he saw the big screen and recognized the Scratch program. He ran upstairs to bring his Dad and Mom downstairs for a look at "my computer!". The little 5 gigabyte motherboard with a Linux Raspberry Pi operating system was valiantly chugging away as smooth as my first 33 megabyte Gateway computer. What a repeat thrill that was!

         My second special moment was reading bedtime poems from their book "A Light in the Attic" with Natalia snuggled close. Both listened in rapt attention and we randomly selected poems to read. When Brady asked if he could read poems to me, and did so almost flawlessly, with delight, I knew the book choice was correct. It was gratifying and heartwarming to see both grandchildren connect to Shel Silverstein's rhythmic poems.

         Natalia said it best - "When we sing songs, we sing poems too!" Poetry summed up from a five year old's perspective - simple but true. "