Cousins, aunts, third aunts, grandparents, a pile of awakened memories ......
First, cousin Yun Yun
One morning before the New Year, my daughter said before leaving the house, "Today, do not come to dinner at noon. Go to Ren Tianzeng's house."
"Why go to their house again?" I asked in surprise, because I had already been there once before and had eaten a meal at someone's house.
"We have a New Year's Day party tonight, the homeroom teacher gave forty dollars to each group to buy food to eat at the gala, I can't take it alone, I have to let Ren Tianzeng go with me to get it." Said opened the door and left.
The daughter is the leader of the group, Ren Tianzeng is one of her group members, she has the right to ask the only boy in the group to follow her as a porter. Ren Tianzeng is cousin Yun Yun's youngest son, cousin with a visit to my home, ate a meal I did, is a tall and quite cute little boy, he is a year older than my daughter, or my daughter's cousin, academic performance is a little behind my daughter, singing and painting and other aspects of the talent does not seem to be so on his cousin is very much with a few points of worship color. At the beginning of the school year, my daughter just when the group leader and what the executive class president, the performance of the special positive, had complained to me, said Ren Tianzeng mischievous, sometimes she can not control, and later, my daughter when the enthusiasm of the class cadres a little bit weakened down, the words showed a day by day growth of a sense of maturity, very good at dealing with interpersonal relationships with the other classmates are good, but also particularly concerned about some of the poor family members of the classmates, one day the two reportedly a few students, and the other two said to be the first time in a few years. One day, he brought two girls who hadn't taken a bath in months to his home to take a bath.
In order to be responsible for a group of New Year's Day celebration matters, the daughter does not come to lunch, I finished the class out of the door, suddenly decided to buy some gifts to go to the cousin Yun Yun's home around, the courtesy of a good thing, she went to my home, I should go to return a visit, have been there once, but she was not, I carry heavy heavy bag of fruits pouncing on the empty, and then brought home to eat it themselves. This time, I took the opportunity to buy a bag of bananas, oranges and other fruits at the fruit stand near the school gate, and once again walked into the dirt courtyard built on the edge of the garbage ditch. That is a family surnamed Zhang family in their own courtyard outside the stink of the ditch side of a vacant lot surrounded by an irregularly shaped broken yard, the east side of the two low adobe houses built, the west side of the pile of debris haphazardly built into the broken shed, a pair of yellow stray dog mother and son woofing and barking to welcome me, the dog's mother pouched and unkempt look, very much in line with its identity, the small puppies soft hair bright and bouncing around, looks cute and dignified!
There is only one room with a section of pipe sticking out with gray smoke, I unveiled a thick curtain made of rags and pushed open a wooden door with mottled paint, and asked, "Are you there, what are you busy with?" I stepped into the cold darkness, and when my eyes adjusted to the great contrast of light between inside and outside the house and could see clearly, I was surprised to find that my cousin was renting a low, messy, dark, and shabby house, with a wooden bed resting on a very large, ochre-red kang surface covered with the bedding of my cousin's mother and son, a square-plate iron stove on the dirt floor, and a rectangular, old coffee table placed between the stove and the edge of the kang, filled with Dish, cut into strips of half a plastic mesh basket of taro sticks to be fried, as well as pickled sauerkraut, soaked vermicelli, blanched bean sprouts, because the daughter to go home for dinner, the cousin prepared a lot of dishes to start frying a long time ago, she asked me to sit on a small square stool behind the stove, I chatted with her and watched her stir-frying, she said, one of the two children do not eat soy sauce, one does not eat lard, so she stir-fried every dish is from a large caliber cylinder She said that every dish she fried is from a large caliber jar, scooped out a few spoons of oil into a small iron pot on the stove, stir fry a few times with a spatula, from a plastic spice box to take a few kinds of regular seasoning sprinkled into it, and then from a small caliber jar scooped out a small spoon of oil splash hot pepper into the dish inside, and then pouring a bit of water to put the lid on the pot and smothered for a while on the plate, a wooden box on the side of the bed with a rice cooker bubbling with hot air, which was steaming the rice. Chatting to the cousin fried the last dish - taro strips when I look at the fast twelve o'clock, and hastened to leave, cousin want to stay with me for dinner, where I can not bear to give her trouble, this crowded hut, the three of them plus my daughter is enough to turn away from the four people. When I left, my cousin insisted on loading me with a few kinds of miscellaneous grains she brought from the countryside: buckwheat noodles, bean noodles, and a few bowls of lentil seeds, I can not push off, she said that a lot of people brought to eat themselves, to several relatives have been sent, not to send people back to the countryside during the winter holidays can only be left for the rats, I can only carry back heavily, I estimate that I will be a year and a half years can not eat it all.
All the way back to Yun Yun's residence, very much lamented the different destinies of people. The family of three siblings, Yun Yun is the oldest, three of their siblings have been in the school I taught, that is, I just stood on the podium, Yun Yun and her younger siblings and another uncle's cousin, the oldest brother's son, as well as my third sister, my little brother are before and after the school I taught on the junior high school, since I was admitted to the school that can eat the public meal, the family of the children's education is very important to up, the family of the children's education, the family of the children's school is very important to up. Yun Yun family uncles and aunts have suffered a lot, hard to insist on the three children from the high school for out, the oldest two oldest three after repeated tutorials are admitted to the university to seek a good career, now live in the county building living in a well-off day, did not get into the school of the Yun Yun, another cousin, my third sister and the nephews of the oldest brother's family are farmers, before and after the marriage of marriage, and now everyone is already over forty years old, the middle-aged man, their children, and their children. Now everyone is already more than forty years of middle-aged people, their children or college or high school junior high school, there have been working. Yun Yun's family is not very bad, her father-in-law is a retired old teacher, her husband has been working as a private teacher is not lucky enough, so far has not been able to change. In order to provide two sons in high school to go to school, Yun Yun will throw down the family's work to her in-laws husband, their own into the city rented so a dark broken house to live, specializing in cooking for the two sons, in the countryside they are considered to be a very good family, but in the city of her days appeared to be a lot of embarrassment.
Bruno is three years younger than me, although only three years younger than me, because I went to school early, we did not read in a school, and did not play together as a child, until I became a junior high school teacher, she is still a junior high school student, and then I transferred into the city to teach, Bruno graduated from high school no longer go to school, by the introduction of a relative in the county of an agricultural processing plant as a few years as a pig brush, and then there have been a few times, but also a few times in the city of the city. The workers, then there were a few to and fro, and then the factory closed down, she went home and got a serious illness, almost untreated, delayed until almost thirty years old when they found an object to get married, within two years even gave birth to two sons, nearly twenty years, there is no contact between us, or two or three years ago, their aunt was seriously ill, I went to see a few times, and then died in mourning, have run into this cousin, but did not talk to A few words, until this year, she went to the city to rent a room for the children to go to school, the youngest son and my daughter into a class a study group, in the two children's traction, the walk between our cousins only more up.
The second, the first wa aunt
The other day, cousin Yun Yun in the process of chatting with me suddenly broke the news: "the first wa aunt died, you know not, sister?"
"Ah? When, I do not know at all, only know that she has been sick all these years, as if it is a liver disease, I remember once listening to that village people said that the family is full of hepatitis, for many years there is no place to listen to the news, when did she die?" I asked in surprise.
"I also heard, not long ago, specifically I can not say, I heard that it is to the aunt back dead." Yun Yun said.
"How back dead?" I then asked.
"Oh yes, is the lunar calendar in October, the first wa aunt said to go to another house to do some work, let aunt father back her to that house, aunt father on the back to another house, to enter the house to put down the aunt when, found no breath, so dead, you say easy not? Lunar October days have been cold, perhaps phlegm blocked, or how, in the aunt's back a cushion, a breath will not come up again ......" Yun Yun explained a whole lot.
"That little milk is still alive, right?" I asked again.
The little milk is the mother of Aunt Dewa, eighty years old this year, Aunt Dewa is the oldest, belonging to the tiger, counting the time of death is sixty years old.
On the first wa aunt, my earliest memory is eight years old, with a group of aunts and sisters depression or sister-in-laws to visit her home, because she just gave birth to her first-born child, is a daughter, that before, that is, the first wa aunt is not yet married, I must have seen her, because I remembered up to her appearance, but can not remember where and what the circumstances to see her, at that time, first wa aunt, and her own sister, ringing aunt. And her own sister ringing aunt, in the village is very famous, because they can do embroidered pillows, parents generation people say are tsk tsk, those two aunts are small masters and small breasts of the eldest daughter of the two daughters, have not attended a day of school, the countryside said the needle and thread tea and rice kung fu is good, in my childish feeling at that time, who married that kind of daughter-in-law, is the most fortunate thing, because they have received a very good family education, both The first thing I'd like to talk about is the fact that I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do this, but I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do it.
Eight years old that time went to Dewa aunt's home, but also went to the loud aunt's home, they are married to the same village, although different surnames, but in fact two sisters married two cousins, even more strange is that they two of their own aunts, our generation of aunts, that is, the young master's own sister of the sister is married to the two aunts of the family's brothers, so that the order of the order is not right, of course, is the two aunts of the family's brothers, the order is not right, of course, is the two aunts of the first married to the older generation. The aunt first married the two brothers of the older generation, and then the niece of the later generation married the two brothers of the younger generation. Two aunts not far away from home, ringing aunt at that time has no children, probably just married, eight-year-old me is not clear about those things, the most shocking and unforgettable is, ringing aunt lived in the house full of wall paste with green and flowery cigarette carton paper and wrapped sugar paper, my little heart was envious of stuffed full, that to smoke through how many cartons of cigarettes, eat how many pieces of sugar (at that time, we call the fruit candy candy sugar) to save so much flower paper ah How many boxes of cigarettes did it take to smoke and how much candy did it take to eat before we could save up that much floral paper? In my eyes, that was the most luxurious thing in the world, so I thought Auntie Loud's family was very rich. Aunt Dewa's family had a boy the same age as me, then also went to school, saw me, he held in his hand with an old fountain pen, pencil shaking, in front of me to show off, in fact, they are all obsolete, but in those days, I also stared at a pile of envious eyes broken nibs, rotten pencil, and very much hoped that the boy could send me a, that time, in addition to a pencil, I have never had a pen that can absorb ink, the boy was very stingy, finally did not send me a Very stingy, finally did not send me a bad pen, I certainly do not dare to open my mouth to ask, the boy is the aunt's brother, after growing up, in junior high school we also did two years of classmates, and ultimately became a farmer, living in poverty.
That time from the first wa aunt followed by a group of aunts and sisters-in-law over a big mountain back to their own home, it was already dark, I ran down the steep slope of the alley near our home, behind the ghosts chasing like a cold sweat, running to the front of our house, the neighbor's uncle's family dog woof woof barking a few times to scare me trembling with a cry screaming, the moment my father was carrying the pig food bowl in the pigpen outside the door to the pigs pouring, and the father was also a pig. At that moment, my father was carrying a pig's food bowl and pouring food for the pigs in the pigsty outside the door, and reprimanded the dog, wondering why it wasn't my mother but my father who was feeding the pigs. I wondered why it wasn't my mother but my father who fed the pigs, because it was usually my mother who did that kind of work.
Another ten years or so, the first wa aunt gave birth to several children have read in the school where I teach, the two daughters are very good, but learning is not good, junior high school graduation are dropped out of school to work in the farm and then married to live the life of an ordinary farmer's wife to go, the oldest three is a boy because of naughty and mischievous and notorious, but also only to read to the junior high school, and then enlisted in the army as a soldier to change for the better, and it seems to have made a difference married to the field, but also a daughter-in-law as a city dweller. The family was left with only two people guarding the fields to live, aunt and father-in-law or a Feng Shui gentleman, often invited to the funeral to show their skills to earn an income.
There was a period of time, I was not close to this aunt's family is more familiar with, because I also married the son of a family in that village, do that family for more than 20 years of daughter-in-law, from time to time to go to the village to walk, but our marriage did not maintain in the end, because I read a little bit of schooling, and always want to fight for the right to be a man, do not want to do the rules and regulations to be a tame slave. I still do the family's daughter-in-law, I have seen a few times, then the body is still healthy, virtuous and simple a peasant woman, randomly a peasant meal, she made out with the general family is not the same, color and flavor, the first wa aunt sisters can be called the countryside in the big girl.
Time flow in the past years, sporadically heard my mother and father occasionally talk about the situation of some of their relatives, know that Auntie Dewa is not very sick, but really did not expect, she suddenly left the world, walked in front of her old mother, the only surviving grandmother generation of elderly people will be how embarrassed ah!
Third, three aunt
"Mom, who is that old lady today?" My daughter asked me when she got up from her nap.
"Your three milk, your aunt Haixia aunt's mom, I said to you, how did you forget?" I said.
"How old is she?" My daughter asked again.
"A year younger than me, your Aunt Haixia and your brother the same age, people are already the mother of two children, your brother is still nothing." I said.
"Huh? I look like your mom." My daughter said so.
"How can that be, does your third wife look that old? Is your mom that young?" I criticized my daughter, stealing joy in my heart.
"Really, compared to her, you are too young, she really looks like your mom!" My daughter insisted.
"That's because you will not see, the countryside, the wind and sun, dark skin, plus wearing old-fashioned stereotypes, it looks old." I said. "Hey, that said, I remembered a joke I made before, that time I walked with your Auntie Xie, our school's Ding bumped into, she did not recognize your Auntie Xie, asked me this is your family old man, I'm very embarrassed, hurriedly explained that no, this is a middle school teacher Xie, Ding a moment of embarrassment did not know what to say good, and later to see me also expressed a few times to your Auntie Xie's apologies Ah!" "You say, your Auntie Xie is not so old?" I then asked my daughter.
"Well, really old." I was secretly pleased with myself for a while.
Alas, how old people want others to say they are young! No matter how much more, it is also over half a hundred years old, how can it be young. The third aunt today is the first time to come to my door, with her daughter - my little cousin Haixia, Haixia also holding her two and a half years old little daughter, her eldest daughter is almost seven years old, in the first grade of elementary school. Haixia married after seven or eight years has been working outside, I basically have not seen her, but this year, but frequent visits, first of all, begged me to help, she in order to provide for the children to study in the city, bought a set of small two-storey house, the need for a loan, and begged me to give her as a guarantor, the matter was completed, and then came to thank me twice, this time with her mother - my three Aunt to come, or to thank me, 50,000 yuan loan to solve her urgent needs, if not for me there is no one relative can help her this favor, so remember my good, frequently to express gratitude, last time Haixia brought her in-laws newly killed pig on a piece of pork several pork ribs to this time, the three aunts from the New Year's Eve of her family's pig body to cut down the three or four kilograms of the two pieces of lean meat, Haixia and bought a large banana! I'm not sure how much I'm going to be able to get out of this one.
Auntie three today also deliberately dressed up a bit, dressed quite new, neck around a piece of pink glittering with plastic beads ornaments scarf, very conspicuous, but open teeth teeth long fingernails stuffed full of black dirt, eat food, I just made my `crispy soft spread cake rolled a thick pile of attentively handed over to her hands, did not let that hand touch my plate, the food is a person with a bowl of food, alas, I am not really I'm not really a clean freak, but Auntie Sam is really not too concerned about personal hygiene, I can't help but dislike it.
After dinner, we chatted about many things, asked about the situation of some familiar folks in our village, and some of our relatives' trivialities.
Haixia's youngest daughter, should be my little niece, a fine and coquettish little girl, picked up my daughter wrote full of English a small book page by page, the mouth of the 123 read, a moment lost the small book, grabbed her cousin's roller skates lying on the floor rolled to play. Haixia fair skin, wearing half-length boots, white long sweater, legs thin and well-proportioned, completely dressed in the city, the little girl is also dressed like a small ball, very cute, I remembered Haixia help me with my daughter, my daughter is not now her little daughter, that is the daughter just over a year old, Haixia did not graduate from elementary school dropped out of school at home, and not uncle three aunt does not provide her with school, it is her own stupid and lazy do not like to study, I put her in the school, she is a little bit too much, but I do not like to study. Like to study, I led her to help me with my daughter, until I sent my daughter into kindergarten, she also helped for half a year, until my daughter in the middle class, Haixia only left my home in the tailor store I helped her to find to learn tailoring to go, turn the eye of my daughter is fifteen years old, Haixia has been married as a mother of two children. I asked my third aunt, "Do you love your grandchildren?"
"Alas, this is someone else's child, not a real grandchild, looking at it is not abhorrent, different from the next family's children, but after all, it is not their own family." Third aunt said slowly, she is not afraid of her daughter to hear upset.
"Your own daughter born ah, how not pro?" I said.
"Daughter is the next person's family, the birth of the child is someone else's, if they have a pro-grandson, that's how good, Quan Xi big, but even a daughter-in-law can not mix." The third aunt sighed and said.
Quanxi is the only son of the three aunts of the three uncles, two years younger than my son, twenty-five-six years old, graduated from high school tutorials a year did not get into a university to go around and do not work properly to earn money, now also really to the daughter-in-law to get married.
"Our village Chengxi's two sons are married for several years, Chengxi are a few grandchildren." Third aunt said.
My head at once appeared forty years ago picture, winter, a rough-skinned boy, because the brain is stupid to memorize the text, the ear is often pulled by the teacher to bleed, that is a year older than me, my cousin Chengxi, years have not seen, I did not expect to be the grandfather of several children.
The third aunt because she has not yet married to the daughter-in-law over and over again chanting also reminds me of thirty years ago when my grandmother over and over again chanting uncle two uncle three can not find a daughter-in-law scene. At that time, our family because of the high composition, no one dares to marry their daughters to the composition is the son of the landlord's family, grandpa died when I was sixteen years old on the sophomore year of high school, uncle three twenty-three years old, the second uncle are twenty-seven years old, but also can not say a marriage, grandpa did not complete the major events of his life on the hand, grandma did not have the ability to give her two grown-up son to become a family, it is just a xianglin sister-in-law reading the ahao general to see the people on the reading, until after the reform and opening up of the world.
I remember that it was thirty-one years ago, a summer vacation, introduced to the third aunt to the grandmother's home to matchmaking, the grandmother was nervous and did not know how to do good, so I let me know where to put together ten yuan and a handkerchief Baba knot knot stuffed into the hands of the then seventeen year old shy girl - the third aunt, the third aunt, eight years younger than the third uncle, the third aunt. Auntie San was eight years younger than Uncle San and was not very willing, but she was finally married into our family. Decades have passed, and today, for the first time, she came to the door of my niece, who is still a year older than her, to thank me for helping her daughter, and her mouth couldn't stop chattering about marrying her daughter-in-law, precisely like her grandmother decades ago, who has been four years since she became ancient.
Fourth, Grandma and Grandpa
Bun finished, do not want to go outside to buy, too unclean, once a few times, saw the bun pressure of one hand to collect money and one hand and noodles, after collecting dirty bills, do not wash their hands at all even wipe do not rub a little, very naturally, the hand and then into the dough kneaded up, I can not help but say a sentence: I couldn't help but say: "How dirty is money, why don't you wash your hands?" The answer was, "It's all like this, where can I wash it." The color of my face didn't look too good anymore. At that time I made up my mind to roll out my own flour, make my own bun, and then not go outside to buy, however, I no matter how good buns are just I eat alone, my daughter, in addition to the lunch table, I made buns on the dishes of a meal to eat a little bit of buns, the breakfast are in the school cafeteria to buy and eat, she did not have time to eat the buns that I made, it's okay, then I'll be doing buns for myself to eat it alone, even insisted on for a long time, and one morning buns eaten out of the way. What to do with breakfast it, or do not want to go outside to buy, "just do the pancake, right?" I thought to myself.
said do it, hot noodle, first put the basin on the heating platform hot, I finished my morning exercise, and then into the kitchen to find a pan to open the gas, pour into the hands of the oil to the panel sprinkled with a few drops of oil so that the dough does not stick to the hands of sticky panels, take out of the refrigerator, a few handfuls of bitter beans, a few kneaded face rolled into a round pancake, poured on the top of the a little bit of oil, sprinkled with a little bit of bitter bean flour, get even, rolled into a volume, cut into two sections, each section vertically cut open, and cut into two sections, and the other sections, the other sections are not the same. Each section vertically open, and together spinning roll, and then rolled into layers of circles of round cake, light the fire and pour oil and so the bottom of the pan is hot to the appropriate temperature, the pastry buckle into the frying pan, rotate a few times, cover the lid, and so on the face of the pot that the color of the pan, turn the opposite way to cook for a while, and then turn once again after a while, not long after, a lasagna of orange and fragrant pancakes on the cooking is good, and smelling that sweet smell of the mouth-watering, and one side of the chapter to do the other! A piece of rolled out cake, the brain suddenly remembered: "Oops, still owe a certain friend a favor, I face a thick pile of oil cake alone to drink eight treasures sugar tea, no matter how delicious can only eat a little bit of such delicious food is not a pity to eat with no one?" Immediately call people, my friend's two mouths are still greedy for bed and refused to get up, I called twice, the sugar tea cooked, home hygiene are done, they came to the door, and really saw me put on the table of oil cake on the praise, the woman said: "I can't imagine that you will do all kinds of food ah!" I saw the two of them eagerly tearing and eating them, their faces filled with sweetness in their smile lines, the man said, "Your family used to be landlords, so you must have done all the cooking very well, right?" I took the opportunity to blow up: "Yes, my grandmother cooks well, my mom also does well, and now I also do well, haha!"
Drinking tea with goji berries, jujubes, cinnamon, rock sugar and other condiments, on the sweet oil cake, chatting about the sea and the sky, others praised my cooking, I have no modesty, the king's wife to sell their own boasting, bragging about the thoughts suddenly jumped decades against the clock, and saw Grandpa went out to walk the art of returning to the eyes of Grandma and I look forward to, said with a smile:
"Crash" was a word Grandpa liked to use, which means "soft".
Grandpa life vegetarian, perhaps very young is also eating meat, that is I can not know, since I can remember the time, grandparents have been vegetarian, the house is also for the bodhisattva statue, I can not be sure that they are not Buddhists, at that time, I was very unimpressed with their behavior, I am a young man to understand that life in the world should be well enjoyed, the meat is how delicious things ah, I grew up! I grew up gluttonous, most of our family members are gluttonous, Mrs., Grandpa, a few uncles, my sister and brother and I, are all gluttonous extraordinary, only Grandma and Mom are not very gluttonous, my father did his best to inhibit himself, there are good food first filial piety elders and then care for the children, only my grandparents, light to any meat and fishy food do not dip, even plants in the onions, garlic and leeks and so on the vegetables said to be a stench to stay away from, I think for a while my grandparents, I think the meat and fish is not a Buddhist, I think it is not a Buddhist. There was a time when I felt that my grandparents were too much of a loss for their own lives, and I wanted to take advantage of their doting on me to force them to break their fast to eat meat, but my mother said that my grandpa would vomit when he smelled the fishy smell, and my grandpa spent his whole life reading hard and researching Zhouyi and yin and yang, and he could say that he still had some of his own beliefs, and my grandmother was illiterate, and she gave up the desire for good food purely in order to honor her own man.
Decades after Grandpa vegetarian, for Grandma and Grandpa, the best food is houma oil fried pancake or branded oil cake, with the same oil fried cooked pickles, or lentil sprouts fried noodles, and then drink a meal of sweet tea, is the best enjoyment. They do not even eat a lifetime of eggs, Grandma also raise chickens and pigs, but are to sell for a little oil and salt money, I accompanied my grandparents for the New Year's Eve of the years, I can not stand the gluttony of my grandparents' diet of light, my father or mother to send me to Grandma's home, specifically for me to bring some cooked meat, if another person, in the grandmother's home, stained with fishy meat on the stove that is unimaginable, Grandpa will be furious and scolded by the Grandpa would have been furious and scolded Grandma, and would have given other people a very heavy color to see, but I am an exception to the rule, Grandma and Grandpa's love for me beyond their beliefs. I brought cooked meat, Grandma will personally in the pot on the stove for me to get hot, Grandpa smiled a sentence without complaining, just let Grandma to the pot a few more times to remove the fishy smell can be, Grandpa also let Grandma sent a message to his younger brothers and nephews, New Year's Day must invite his baby grandson to go to eat meat, who do not call, Grandpa will not be happy, so, from the New Year's Day on the 30th of those years, I was a few cousins granduncle family rows of The first time I saw this, I was able to see the whole world, and I was able to see the whole world, and I was able to see the whole world, and I was able to see the whole world.
Now I can't remember how many years my grandfather passed away, after my grandfather left, my grandmother lived a few more years, and now my grandmother has passed away for six or seven years, I don't know what they are like in the other world. Today, when I was eating my own crashing oil cake, I couldn't help but think of my grandparents, who gave me countless love and affection, and played a very big role in molding my personality. I love my grandparents dearly, and as long as my life is still alive, I will always miss my two relatives, and I hope that my grandparents' souls will be able to perceive my granddaughter, who has been spoiled by them! I'm not sure how much I'm going to be able to do this, but I'm sure I'll be able to do it in the future!