Birthday check

Date: 2007.07.01 | Category: Worth Reading Again, family | Tags:

Today is my husband’s grandma’s 82nd birthday. She’s never wanted a birthday party before, but this year she announced that she wanted a party. So we threw her a party.

She wanted presents too, and quite honestly, who doesn’t??? So we got her what she asked for, which were some earrings. But then I walked past the Crocs at the store and turned to my husband and said, Do you think she’d like some Crocs?

And he said that was a great idea, so we bought her some lovely powder blue Crocs.

Now I should tell you that his grandma is completely blind and she’s been that way since she was a child. She doesn’t move around too well anymore because she has poor circulation, and she’s blind, and as a result of that and most likely more, her feet and ankles are incredibly swollen. I hardly ever see her in shoes, and its probably because they are too uncomfortable to wear.

She thought that the Crocs were loaves of bread when she opened the gift bag, and we practically had to force her to take them out of the bag so she could see that they weren’t loaves of bread. And then I put them on her feet. I thought they were kinda tight, but she loved them and was so excited to have shoes that didn’t hurt her feet. We were out on the deck and I suggested that she stand up in them to see how they felt, and then she took off down the deck towards the house and told me to come with her.

We got into the dining room, and it was a sight to see my husband’s 82 year old grandma all made up in her birthday outfit and blue Crocs (with the price tag still attached). She told me she had something for me, and then started to pat around on the countertop. I couldn’t see anything, but then she reached into this pitcher that is always there, mostly for decoration I think, and pulled out a birthday check for me.

She’s never given me a birthday check before. I’ve been married to her grandson for 10-1/2 years and today was my very first birthday check from her.

I looked down at my check, it was typed by her on her ancient typewriter. The amount of the check says: Twenty-five dollars for nonsencse.

For nonsense. Isn’t that a riot?

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