Find time for play time with a child

“A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove...but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.” So said Forest E. Witcraft, teacher and Scout leader. 

So, while Charley attended the Cubs baseball game two weekends ago with two of our sons and one grandson, Jesse, while we were in Chicago, I chose to spend that time with my newest grandchild, Jemma, age 10 months. 

When Jesse (age 4) got home, he handed me a gun and we both ran around the house, shooting, hiding behind the couch and under the table, ambushing the “grownups”, reloading from our cache of bullets and doing all the things cowboys of old did. Jesse didn’t want me to leave the next day.

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