This week we have "Dots" as selected by the lovely Mia at Art Journal Journey and the quote some of you might agree with - "Everything slows down with age". I know I certainly do. So marrying the two together I give you this week's journal page and story:-
"Marjorie was quite looking forward to watching her favourite soap on TV when there came a knock at the door. Before she had chance to get up from her chair in burst her two grand daughters, Milly and Molly who were eight and nine respectively. Only ten months separated the girls and so they were more like twins than anything. Marjorie loved her girls.
"Nan, Nan" came the cry from the door, "we've come to see you and brought you presents." Both girls were so alike that they had the ability to finish one another's sentences and could often speak in complete unison.
"I've brought you a flower I picked from my own little garden" said Milly.
"And I've made you a picture in my journal" said Molly.
"Hold on Girls" came a cry from the doorway, it was mum who came in bearing gifts also. She had made a lovely rich Dundee cake for Marjorie, her favourite mother in law. She was, obviously, her only mother in law to be precise, but often she would tell Marjorie she was her favourite mother in law just to make Marjorie smile. After giving the cake to Marjorie she asked if she would do her a favour and take the girls for a couple of hours that afternoon whilst she went to the hairdressers.
Marjorie was only too pleased to have the girls, they always made her happy and her soap could wait until later in the day, or even tomorrow. And so she went into the kitchen and made the girls a warm blackcurrant drink and a biscuit whilst she sneaked a tiny piece of the Dundee cake with her coffee after putting her flower into a vase.
"Shall we sit down with our drinks and I can take a look at your drawing Molly" she said, and the three of them settled comfortably into the lounge.
The girls drank their drinks, ate their biscuits and then said
"What can we do now?"
"Nan, you know how you have a big garden, well we could go and play tag, or hide and seek" suggested Molly.
"I have some chalk, we could play Hop Scotch on the Patio" suggested Milly.
"What about a nice walk down to the park" said Marjorie, "I'm not sure I have enough energy for those games you suggested. Everything slows down with age. And your Nan is getting older."
"You're not old Nan" the girls cried in unison, "But a walk to the park would be fine" said Molly, "I could do some drawings of you two on the swings."
"And I could push you right up to the sky" said Milly.
And so the three of them washed their hands and put their coats on and set off for the park which was only fifty or so yards down the road.
"So much better than sitting watching TV" thought Marjorie as she set off with a girl holding each of her hands. "Having grand children is the best thing ever" she said to herself."
