Two of Them, Actually

It all started Saturday night with the arrival of Mark's step-mom Betsy and his little sister Emily. A side of our family that we don't get to see so much of as they live quite far away.

Jacob's little eyes got real big and then he ran and hid. He is pretty shy around new people and even more shy around girls. He didn't want them to look at him. He felt mostly safe by Daddy.

After a few hours, Mark and Jacob went outside for a few minutes and chatted a little about Betsy. When they came in, Mark informed us that Jacob had asked him "Daddy, you mean I have TWO grandmas here?"

This was a very sweet thing to hear. After all, since the death of both Mark's and my mother, Jacob has always known that he only had one Grandma - Mama Co. So to him, knowing about Betsy - who is Mark's step-mom and being able to call her Grandma, Jacob was very excited. What was even nicer was that Betsy told him he could call her "grandma" any time he wanted to.

Not much more was said about the "grandma-thing" for the night or the next day. We all said our good-byes and headed our own directions. We probably won't see Betsy again for another year or so as they live so far away.


That night, we finally reached home and went to pick up Jacob's brothers, Travis and Alex.

It took about a minute for Alex to be in the back seat by Jacob before Jacob proudly announced his exciting news to his brother.

"Guess what Alex?"

"What?"

"Guess what I got?"

"Did you get another new toy or something while we were gone at our Dad's?" Alex asked.

"Nope."

"Then what?" Alex asked.

"I got another Grandma" he said.

I smiled from the front seat hearing him say this to Alex.

"You mean Mama Co?" Alex asked.

"No" Jacob said.

"Mama, what's her name?" he asked me.

"Betsy" I reminded him.

"Oh yeah, Betsy" he said to Alex.

"So Jacob has a Grandma?" Alex asked me, knowing that Grandma Jo is really his great-grandma and that the boys have always talked about Jacob not having a Grandma. (This is a sad conversation in our house, but one the boys like to talk about periodically).

"Yes" I said.

To which Jacob responded, "Two of them, actually."

He was so proud.

I was proud for him.