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memories and moments
Help Wanted!
BY CRISTINA A. FERRARI-LOGAN
I
t's 5:00 a.m. on Sunday and the phone is ringing. Reaching blindly across the nightstand, I manage to
knock over half a glass of pomegranate juice which spills quietly off the edge down on the newly shampooed beige carpet. Barely awake, I pick up the phone and croak a weak expletive. Oops! It's my 5-year-old
grandson.
"Grammy! You said a bad word! This is me! Can we have a sleepover at my house tonight? Daddy went to
Sani Barber and my baby brother just fode up all over my mom's new quilt and, and...now she's down in the
launder room crying and, and....Grammy? Grammy! Are you still there?" "Yes, sweetie. I'm still here. Let me
talk to Mommy." The volume is rising. "You can't! I just tode you. She's down in the launder room crying! Just
come over, OK? Please!?"
By the time I arrive, the crisis seems to have abated, and I suspect that all he really wanted was for me to
make some of my famous coconut rice pudding with last night's untouched carton of take-out gravel. The
day passes with minimal drama while Mommy weeds the garden, we scan the Sunday comics, do some serious LEGO engineering, watch two Disney videos, and dig for buried treasure in the sandbox.
Wow! Where did all those nickels and dimes come from?
"Grammy, did you forget about the sleepover?"
"Are you kidding? Of course not. I love sleepovers!"
So here I am in my son-in-law's office/study, stretched out on an impressive eight-foot-long faux-suede
sofa, anticipating a night of potentially high misadventure. Grandson No.1 has been going through a terrifying nightmare phase, while his brother is feverish and has a cold. Today there's a rock-tumbler in his chest.
Their mother is suffering from an aggravated case of sleep deprivation and she wouldn't notice if someone
slipped an inflatable Tom Hanks doll under the covers. Since everyone seems to be neatly tucked in, I can
finally relax and spend an hour or so with Deepak Chopra.
"
"
"...her dentures would flash me a twisted underwater grin
through the heavy glass tumbler where they spent the night."
Over my daughter's strenuous objections, I prefer this somewhat casual sleeping arrangement because
it's comfortable and because I enjoy the added bonus of warm fuzzies from the family feline, Sugar, who
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