Yo!, Marko, Big Mama wants to see you!

Aw man, what did I do now!
Big mama told the little one that she wants to see me if I go out, and to stop by the shop on my way home.
Big Mama runs the Shop all day.
I am staying at the house (yaad)

I was walking, looking at the ground and asking myself what she could want?
"wait a minute, I just got here.
I have been a good boy!"
"What the heck am I worried about"
A big smile appeared on my face and I started to get ready for the little walk (4 blocks) to the Shop.
"Can I come with you?"
My little play son always wants to go with me when I'm leaving.
"you know you must ask your mom (my sis in-law), go on ask her"
He ran, not walked, but ran the 5 steps to his mom's room.
He came flying back like Usain Bolt
"she said yeah".

My other play sister has a little girl.
She is the apple of my eye.
2 years old, but she is really, really small.
Her mom told the boy to bring her with us.
(once mom found out I was going to the shop, then all those could come with me)

My little angel had on the smallest pair of sandals that I ever saw.
The boy was holding her hand, but she could not keep up with an active 6 year old.
"Come on wee one" I said.
I held her hand, but those sandals were not good for walking, so.........

SCOOP!
I picked her up in a flash and made some noise like a jet taking off.
You should have seen her eyes, the biggest, brownest, prettiest eyes this side of heaven.

Kids are the best.

My liitle man was walking just ahead of me when we heard this bell.
CREAMY!!! ITS THE ICE CREAM MAN!!

His mother had already told me NOT to buy him ice cream this day, and he knew it,
but that did not keep him from trying his luck.
No mon, come, come.
We must get to Big Mama's shop, she's waiting on us.

A left turn here, a right there and 2 blocks straight on we are on the main road.
Big Mama, stared at me when I walked up holding the little girl on my hip like she was attached to me.

"You know me Mama" I said, I'm a sucker for the little ones.

"Mi know mon, so does her mother!" she said.
I guess that was my mom-in-law way of telling me not to get too attached to the little girl.

But, it was useless.
All could see that I was treating her like my own daughter.
Little girls love their Dads.
If the Dad is not around, I guess I am the next best thing.

(My real daughter is 29 and I miss her so.
She moved to California a few years ago).


Anyway, we all got candy and snacks and whatever the kids wanted from Mama's Shop.
What did you want I finally ask Mama.
"When you leave, bring this back to the yaad for me" she said.

She handed me what looked like mail for the house that she had picked up from the P.O. I guess.
Looked like Electric and Water bills.

I also went around to the back of the Shop and picked some leaves off the tree.
"You can make some good tea with that" mama said.

She packed it in a black plastic bag and off we went.
Me carrying the little one and the boy running ahead of us.