The Adventures of grandma and me
By © C Davids
Once upon a time their was a little house on the top of a hill, inside this two bedroom cottage lived a five year old little girl and her grandmother. The two of them were very close; grandma had this amazing wray of light about her with her long pony tail swept up in a bow. Her glasses perch up on her nose as she would gently sit in her rocking chair that was nearby the fire place.
Each night after little Annie had gotten her bath and has been fed she would come into the living room where grandma would be enjoying some alone time. As the little one came sneaked in standing in between the doorway starring at her grandma. She stood just starring as she scanned every wrinkle in grandma’s face. Grandma has had a hard life when she grew up; she herself lost her parents at a very young age. She has also out lived four of her siblings and her daughter and son in law that left Annie with her. The welfare was harsh on this living arrangement as grandma was very old, but she insist she wants to raise her granddaughter, that if she needs help she would then let the welfare come in and give her the proper help she needs. She didn’t want the money the welfare gave each child on a monthly basis.
Grandma make due with what she had in her own purse and the husband has left her with. Grandpa died a few years back of lung cancer, but the amazing part of all this, she didn’t once gave up on life when the world took a way her loved ones. She kept going. When her daughter and son in law was killed in their own home, it was by faith that little Annie was staying over at her grandmother’s.
The two has become each others strength, when gran needs a helping hand little Annie is by her side. When little Annie needs a comforting arms wrapped around her when dreams scare her at night grandma is at her side, wiping those tears from her beautiful brown eyes.
She is the splitting image of her mother, the brown locks and the hazel eyes. The only thing she inherited from her father was his enchanting smile and charming ways.
As Annie was brought out of her starring, grandma spot her standing their looking so at peace with her beautiful smile spread on her lips.
“Annie come over here hunny. I thought you sleeping.” She walks over to grandma and stood in front of her looking up to her guardian with love in her eyes. She smiles and said.
“Grandma can you tell me a bedtime story.” Grandma picked her up and sat her on her lap.
Annie puts her little head up on grandma’s shoulder as she pat Annie’s hair for her.
“I think I can do that. This story took place many years ago.” Grandma told her, and she started with her tale.
“One day there was this little boy who lived in this big house with his entire family, from grandparents to aunts, uncles and cousins, his parents were missionaries, so he got to stay with his entire family, but the boy didn’t really know this family, the only family he knew besides his parents was his mother’s mother. The only grandma he knew and loved. Then one day a knock came to the family’s door. As the family was having their usual breakfast the boy got up and went through the long corridors as he finally got to the door that the knock was coming from. He was very little as he pulled the chair closer to him getting up on it and finally he could reach the door knob. As he turned the knob and he saw this lady standing on the other side of the door he got such a fright that he tumbled over the chair and fell flat on his bum.
The boy couldn’t believe that she was here, that she was actually visiting him, but he also didn’t know why she was actually now standing in his family’s doorway. He did miss her, but he knew something’s strange must’ve happened or she is just here to visit.
She finally walked up to him and bows down as she helped him up. Sammy took her hand as she helped him to his feet. She then look at him and her visible tears were there, but she knew she couldn’t break down now she came all this way to be with her grandson.
The other family members ran into the room as they saw who it was.
“Mrs Campbell you here.” The one aunt says.
“Yes I am, I just wanted to spend Christmas with my grandson.” She replied as Sammy was still clutched to her hand.
He looked in between his grandmother and his other family. His grandmother was the closest family he had on his mother’s side. The others were his father’s family who they left him with.
“Grandma you came.” He said. Still looking in between his families.
The one aunt who spoke came closer as she reached out to Mrs Campbell welcoming her into their home. As Sammy has grown up he never knew his fathers family, he grew up mostly knowing his mother’s parents until his grandfather died on the sea while the heavy storms swept the whole boat with every man on board, and that was when the boy was only four. He loved his grandparents always going out with them on adventures. He would always ask, Grandpapa, are we going on another adventure. Then grandpapa would say yes boy we going on the adventures of grandpapa and Sammy.
The Campbell’s didn’t like the idea of the work their daughter and son in law was doing because it would mean they either wont see their grandson much are that he would be raised without his parents.
When his parents finally decided to give their son stability it was Frank who decided on letting the boy live with his family instead of Mrs Campbell. Jo-Anne wasn’t too happy about this at all, but she understood after some much motivation from her husband that it be best he lived with his family, seeing as her mother was old and had too much going on, but what they didn’t know was. Their son was listening through an open door as he stood their pushing his parent’s door open. His grandma was with them for that weekend when all this was being planned on where he would stay. He ran off to his grandma’s quarters yelling.
“Grandma, grandma they sending me away. You got to stop them.” He says.
Mrs Campbell didn’t know what to do as she got up from her rocking chair and hugged the boy trying to calm him down.
His tears started to lessen and the snickering starts to slow down as she let him sit on her lap.
“Grandma they wana send me away.” he said again. As tears was busy forming once again.
“Sammy know this that I will never let you go. Your parents just want you to know your other family too.” She says trying to make the boy understand that it was okay, that they will see each other again.
“What if I never see you, grandma? What then?” he says.
They heard footsteps coming closer and closer as they saw it was Jo- Anne standing their.
“Why is he crying.” She asked.
He burst out crying holding tight to his grandma.
“He over heard you and Frank talking about sending him to Carter’s.” she said.
“Mom you know if I had a say in this I would let him stay here with you, but his too much for you to handle all at once.” She said.
“How dare you say that? This child is never too much, his the closest I have too family with you always gone.” Mrs Campbell argued back.
Sammy didn’t want his grandma and mom to say things to each other that would be hurtful. Its then that he remembered what his grandpapa told him. That he will have to watch over them for him, his man now. And a man does what’s ever must be done to keep his loved ones from harms way.
That is when he realised he has to go. To keep these two from hurting each other. He lifts his head from his grandma’s shoulders and wiped his face with his hand.
He wiggled from his grandma’s arms and got to his feet. They were watching him as he stood tall and had them look at him. Tears stains still hovering on the boys face.
He then takes each of their hands and holds it into his. He smiles at them and he says.
“I will go to stay with them, but I want to see grandma whenever I want too.” He says more to his mother.
She bends down in front of her son looking into his powder blue eyes as she scanned his face, that angelic face she gave birth too four years ago. How quick he grew up. Remembering how much he loved her parents especially after her father died, Sammy became closer to his grandma. He would tell her mommy, grandma and me go on plenty adventures, but mostly it was the two of them talking about the adventures grandpapa was on in heaven.
She reached out to him as she held’s him in her arms.
“I love you so much my boy. Never get too big okay.” He nods in her arms.
“I love you too mommy. We all do. Right grandma.” He says.
As grandma came closer to them and hold them both in her arms.
“I love you both so much.” She says that her tears betrayed her as they fell.
The following day Sammy was packed up to head to Johannesburg, South Africa. The boy didn’t know that the day he chose to go live with his father’s parents and relatives was the last time he would see his grandma. That it would be the last Christmas he would have with the people he loved.
When he came to live with his father’s family it was painful because he had to say goodbye to his mommy.
Jo-Anne and Frank were ready to say their goodbyes while the car that was waiting on them to go to the airport was hooting outside. The parents stood inside the doorway as they both bow down to their little boy saying goodbye.
Frank was the first to say goodbye, but Sammy wasn’t so heartbroken about it.
“You be a good boy for your grandparents and family okay.” Frank said as he pat the boys mop curls. Sammy hugged his dad and let go, but it was when his mother’s turn came the boy couldn’t hold his tears in any longer. He held onto her neck not wanting to let loose. But he remembers what his grandma said that he should be a good boy and they would be together very soon.
“Sammy I love you, mommy will be back sooner then you think.” She said, but he knew it wasn’t true that why would his parents always say that when even they knew they wont be back soon.
“Mommy don’t leave me.” he kept crying. He didn’t let go when Frank came and have to loosen his son’s grip on his mother. As Jo-Anne walked out to the car, Sammy ran after her holding onto her dress. He didn’t want to let go, the other family couldn’t even stop him. The boy just was two close to his mother and nobody would ever change that.
Finally Jo-Anne stopped as she turned around facing the blue eyed boy. She gave him a kiss on the forehead and made him a promise as she takes off the pendant with the chain her father handed her so many years ago with a picture of him and her as a baby and on the other side was a picture of herself with baby Sammy on. She told him that if he kept this pendant close to his heart he would have nothing to fear because his grandpapa and herself will be protecting him and keep him safe from those dreams he usually get.
Its then that he finally loosen his mother from his grip once again. He stood up straighten him out and said his last goodbye.
The thing about Sammy his dreams was visions he would get and that frightens him because he was only four years old and didn’t know any better. The closest family he had was all gone; his parents just left him with strangers.
He stood by as the car pulled out of the driveway and their mother went gone and left him here. He stood there for as long as he could he opened the pendant and ran his finger on his mother’s face, the same he did to his grandpapa. He looked up to the clouds and said, “Grandpapa it’s just you and me now.” And walked back to the house to people he has never known growing up.
He knows that his grandpapa is in heaven that is what his grandma said; she said he is no longer in the grave that they would meet him up there one day.
“Really grandma we going to dig a hole to visit grandpapa.” He would ask.
Grandma would laugh and he would think it was crazy that she was laughing at him.
“No, Sammy we will meet him one day in heaven.” She would say.
“Where is heaven?” he would ask.
“Heaven is where there is this beautiful garden and everything in heaven is peaceful and happy. Children playing and building castles.” She would say.
“Do you think grandpapa is still catching fish.” He asked.
“Off course he does. He is waiting to catch fish with you too.” She said.
“Are you going their too grandma.”
“Little man I know I will be going their, but not anytime soon.” She says.
That was how he found out that heaven is a place where family come together and be peaceful and happy.
“I can’t wait to be their either.” He said out loud as he walked back into the house he never slept in before.
His father’s family wasn’t what he expected, but they weren’t also what he wanted.
He just wanted his mommy and his grandma. He just wanted to be home and play in his room or go on long walks with grandma. He just wanted to go on new adventures with her.
It was two years later and he has since had only four visits from his parents on his birthday and Christmas, but none of his grandma until now.
They were all sitting in the living area as Mrs Campbell told the Carters she is here to take her grandson back home. He was more than enlightened as his face has it shown on his face, but the Carters weren’t so happy about this new arrangement. They didn’t want to let the boy go, but it was the letter from Jo-Anne that changed that. She handed the letter over to them as they kept reading.
Dear Margie
I am writing you this letter on behalf of myself and Frank. We are doing quite well here in Australia. We have so far helped built two churches and its going well, without God we couldn’t have done it and knowing he has put us on this path to help the needy. As you may know our son, Sammy has been living with you all for nearly two years. We really miss him a lot and hope to see him soon. We have been talking too my mother and we have decided it’s a good thing that Sammy get too spend time with her as well. She has been a part of his life since birth and I know how much Sammy loves his grandma. Perhaps me and Frank shouldn’t have taken him away from her, but she just lost my dad and we thought it be great to give her time to heal instead we only harmed them both in the present. We also wanted Sammy to know his other family, so in case you wonder why am I writing to you now, I want my son to be happy and I know that his very fragile with his parents gone and he think we left him behind. I want my mom stated as his guardian until we get back to South Africa later this year. I hope and trust you would grant me this. Tell everyone else that we are thankful to helping us with Sammy. We miss our son and we can’t be there for him, but this we can do for him letting him move back into his own house with his grandma.
Yours sincerely
Jo-Anne
As Margie read the letter and hand it over to her husband, they both stare at the boy who’s never left his grandma’s hand. As much as it hurts them that their own grandson hasn’t been that close to them over the two years. Martin and Margie Carter has tried so hard giving their son’s child the proper home life any child deserves, but they just couldn’t handle his dreams he would get late at night. The fact he would just keep to himself never playing with the other kids are talking to anyone else. He would play by himself and he would walk around the yard and make things up like imaginary things. He would pretend his talking with his grandpapa because his grandma told him that his grandpapa is always with him, inside his heart that if he needs to talk to just say what is on his mind. getting Sammy to respond to anything was hard on them. They even noticed that the boy wasn’t as close to his own father as with his mother. They knew that it was his mother’s family the boy was closer too. They felt bad about it, that they never reached out to their grandson when he was born, that they never went to family gatherings when their son invited them. Why Frank even send the boy here was beyond there imagination, perhaps Frank thought it be a good time for his parents to have time with there grandson yet it wasn’t that at all. The way they see it, this boy don’t really know them or need them in his life. He has a hero for a grandpa and an amazing grandma already who loved him very much. They just wish they could have been there from the beginning of his little life.
Mrs Campbell knew that the Carter’s tried the best they could into giving Sammy a happy home, but the boy just weren’t happy with the new home he came to live in. She understood that it was best of she takes the boy back home, back to his real home in his own room and his own bed.
Sometimes in life things has a way of working out. That children grow attached to what they know, and what they know is that being safe and loved with the adults that was in their lives since birth, separation and detachedment is hard on little ones.
Sammy got his prayers answered. The prayer his been praying since he arrived at the Carters.
Grandpapa please take me home.
The end.
Annie was fast asleep in her grandma’s lap, when she was put in her bed. She woke up just before gran stepped out of her room.
“Grandma, I am glad that Sammy had a grandma just like you.” she said.
Her grandma nod and gave her a kiss on her forehead.
That night Annie slept so good that she didn’t get any nightmares.
© C Davids
Each night after little Annie had gotten her bath and has been fed she would come into the living room where grandma would be enjoying some alone time. As the little one came sneaked in standing in between the doorway starring at her grandma. She stood just starring as she scanned every wrinkle in grandma’s face. Grandma has had a hard life when she grew up; she herself lost her parents at a very young age. She has also out lived four of her siblings and her daughter and son in law that left Annie with her. The welfare was harsh on this living arrangement as grandma was very old, but she insist she wants to raise her granddaughter, that if she needs help she would then let the welfare come in and give her the proper help she needs. She didn’t want the money the welfare gave each child on a monthly basis.
Grandma make due with what she had in her own purse and the husband has left her with. Grandpa died a few years back of lung cancer, but the amazing part of all this, she didn’t once gave up on life when the world took a way her loved ones. She kept going. When her daughter and son in law was killed in their own home, it was by faith that little Annie was staying over at her grandmother’s.
The two has become each others strength, when gran needs a helping hand little Annie is by her side. When little Annie needs a comforting arms wrapped around her when dreams scare her at night grandma is at her side, wiping those tears from her beautiful brown eyes.
She is the splitting image of her mother, the brown locks and the hazel eyes. The only thing she inherited from her father was his enchanting smile and charming ways.
As Annie was brought out of her starring, grandma spot her standing their looking so at peace with her beautiful smile spread on her lips.
“Annie come over here hunny. I thought you sleeping.” She walks over to grandma and stood in front of her looking up to her guardian with love in her eyes. She smiles and said.
“Grandma can you tell me a bedtime story.” Grandma picked her up and sat her on her lap.
Annie puts her little head up on grandma’s shoulder as she pat Annie’s hair for her.
“I think I can do that. This story took place many years ago.” Grandma told her, and she started with her tale.
“One day there was this little boy who lived in this big house with his entire family, from grandparents to aunts, uncles and cousins, his parents were missionaries, so he got to stay with his entire family, but the boy didn’t really know this family, the only family he knew besides his parents was his mother’s mother. The only grandma he knew and loved. Then one day a knock came to the family’s door. As the family was having their usual breakfast the boy got up and went through the long corridors as he finally got to the door that the knock was coming from. He was very little as he pulled the chair closer to him getting up on it and finally he could reach the door knob. As he turned the knob and he saw this lady standing on the other side of the door he got such a fright that he tumbled over the chair and fell flat on his bum.
The boy couldn’t believe that she was here, that she was actually visiting him, but he also didn’t know why she was actually now standing in his family’s doorway. He did miss her, but he knew something’s strange must’ve happened or she is just here to visit.
She finally walked up to him and bows down as she helped him up. Sammy took her hand as she helped him to his feet. She then look at him and her visible tears were there, but she knew she couldn’t break down now she came all this way to be with her grandson.
The other family members ran into the room as they saw who it was.
“Mrs Campbell you here.” The one aunt says.
“Yes I am, I just wanted to spend Christmas with my grandson.” She replied as Sammy was still clutched to her hand.
He looked in between his grandmother and his other family. His grandmother was the closest family he had on his mother’s side. The others were his father’s family who they left him with.
“Grandma you came.” He said. Still looking in between his families.
The one aunt who spoke came closer as she reached out to Mrs Campbell welcoming her into their home. As Sammy has grown up he never knew his fathers family, he grew up mostly knowing his mother’s parents until his grandfather died on the sea while the heavy storms swept the whole boat with every man on board, and that was when the boy was only four. He loved his grandparents always going out with them on adventures. He would always ask, Grandpapa, are we going on another adventure. Then grandpapa would say yes boy we going on the adventures of grandpapa and Sammy.
The Campbell’s didn’t like the idea of the work their daughter and son in law was doing because it would mean they either wont see their grandson much are that he would be raised without his parents.
When his parents finally decided to give their son stability it was Frank who decided on letting the boy live with his family instead of Mrs Campbell. Jo-Anne wasn’t too happy about this at all, but she understood after some much motivation from her husband that it be best he lived with his family, seeing as her mother was old and had too much going on, but what they didn’t know was. Their son was listening through an open door as he stood their pushing his parent’s door open. His grandma was with them for that weekend when all this was being planned on where he would stay. He ran off to his grandma’s quarters yelling.
“Grandma, grandma they sending me away. You got to stop them.” He says.
Mrs Campbell didn’t know what to do as she got up from her rocking chair and hugged the boy trying to calm him down.
His tears started to lessen and the snickering starts to slow down as she let him sit on her lap.
“Grandma they wana send me away.” he said again. As tears was busy forming once again.
“Sammy know this that I will never let you go. Your parents just want you to know your other family too.” She says trying to make the boy understand that it was okay, that they will see each other again.
“What if I never see you, grandma? What then?” he says.
They heard footsteps coming closer and closer as they saw it was Jo- Anne standing their.
“Why is he crying.” She asked.
He burst out crying holding tight to his grandma.
“He over heard you and Frank talking about sending him to Carter’s.” she said.
“Mom you know if I had a say in this I would let him stay here with you, but his too much for you to handle all at once.” She said.
“How dare you say that? This child is never too much, his the closest I have too family with you always gone.” Mrs Campbell argued back.
Sammy didn’t want his grandma and mom to say things to each other that would be hurtful. Its then that he remembered what his grandpapa told him. That he will have to watch over them for him, his man now. And a man does what’s ever must be done to keep his loved ones from harms way.
That is when he realised he has to go. To keep these two from hurting each other. He lifts his head from his grandma’s shoulders and wiped his face with his hand.
He wiggled from his grandma’s arms and got to his feet. They were watching him as he stood tall and had them look at him. Tears stains still hovering on the boys face.
He then takes each of their hands and holds it into his. He smiles at them and he says.
“I will go to stay with them, but I want to see grandma whenever I want too.” He says more to his mother.
She bends down in front of her son looking into his powder blue eyes as she scanned his face, that angelic face she gave birth too four years ago. How quick he grew up. Remembering how much he loved her parents especially after her father died, Sammy became closer to his grandma. He would tell her mommy, grandma and me go on plenty adventures, but mostly it was the two of them talking about the adventures grandpapa was on in heaven.
She reached out to him as she held’s him in her arms.
“I love you so much my boy. Never get too big okay.” He nods in her arms.
“I love you too mommy. We all do. Right grandma.” He says.
As grandma came closer to them and hold them both in her arms.
“I love you both so much.” She says that her tears betrayed her as they fell.
The following day Sammy was packed up to head to Johannesburg, South Africa. The boy didn’t know that the day he chose to go live with his father’s parents and relatives was the last time he would see his grandma. That it would be the last Christmas he would have with the people he loved.
When he came to live with his father’s family it was painful because he had to say goodbye to his mommy.
Jo-Anne and Frank were ready to say their goodbyes while the car that was waiting on them to go to the airport was hooting outside. The parents stood inside the doorway as they both bow down to their little boy saying goodbye.
Frank was the first to say goodbye, but Sammy wasn’t so heartbroken about it.
“You be a good boy for your grandparents and family okay.” Frank said as he pat the boys mop curls. Sammy hugged his dad and let go, but it was when his mother’s turn came the boy couldn’t hold his tears in any longer. He held onto her neck not wanting to let loose. But he remembers what his grandma said that he should be a good boy and they would be together very soon.
“Sammy I love you, mommy will be back sooner then you think.” She said, but he knew it wasn’t true that why would his parents always say that when even they knew they wont be back soon.
“Mommy don’t leave me.” he kept crying. He didn’t let go when Frank came and have to loosen his son’s grip on his mother. As Jo-Anne walked out to the car, Sammy ran after her holding onto her dress. He didn’t want to let go, the other family couldn’t even stop him. The boy just was two close to his mother and nobody would ever change that.
Finally Jo-Anne stopped as she turned around facing the blue eyed boy. She gave him a kiss on the forehead and made him a promise as she takes off the pendant with the chain her father handed her so many years ago with a picture of him and her as a baby and on the other side was a picture of herself with baby Sammy on. She told him that if he kept this pendant close to his heart he would have nothing to fear because his grandpapa and herself will be protecting him and keep him safe from those dreams he usually get.
Its then that he finally loosen his mother from his grip once again. He stood up straighten him out and said his last goodbye.
The thing about Sammy his dreams was visions he would get and that frightens him because he was only four years old and didn’t know any better. The closest family he had was all gone; his parents just left him with strangers.
He stood by as the car pulled out of the driveway and their mother went gone and left him here. He stood there for as long as he could he opened the pendant and ran his finger on his mother’s face, the same he did to his grandpapa. He looked up to the clouds and said, “Grandpapa it’s just you and me now.” And walked back to the house to people he has never known growing up.
He knows that his grandpapa is in heaven that is what his grandma said; she said he is no longer in the grave that they would meet him up there one day.
“Really grandma we going to dig a hole to visit grandpapa.” He would ask.
Grandma would laugh and he would think it was crazy that she was laughing at him.
“No, Sammy we will meet him one day in heaven.” She would say.
“Where is heaven?” he would ask.
“Heaven is where there is this beautiful garden and everything in heaven is peaceful and happy. Children playing and building castles.” She would say.
“Do you think grandpapa is still catching fish.” He asked.
“Off course he does. He is waiting to catch fish with you too.” She said.
“Are you going their too grandma.”
“Little man I know I will be going their, but not anytime soon.” She says.
That was how he found out that heaven is a place where family come together and be peaceful and happy.
“I can’t wait to be their either.” He said out loud as he walked back into the house he never slept in before.
His father’s family wasn’t what he expected, but they weren’t also what he wanted.
He just wanted his mommy and his grandma. He just wanted to be home and play in his room or go on long walks with grandma. He just wanted to go on new adventures with her.
It was two years later and he has since had only four visits from his parents on his birthday and Christmas, but none of his grandma until now.
They were all sitting in the living area as Mrs Campbell told the Carters she is here to take her grandson back home. He was more than enlightened as his face has it shown on his face, but the Carters weren’t so happy about this new arrangement. They didn’t want to let the boy go, but it was the letter from Jo-Anne that changed that. She handed the letter over to them as they kept reading.
Dear Margie
I am writing you this letter on behalf of myself and Frank. We are doing quite well here in Australia. We have so far helped built two churches and its going well, without God we couldn’t have done it and knowing he has put us on this path to help the needy. As you may know our son, Sammy has been living with you all for nearly two years. We really miss him a lot and hope to see him soon. We have been talking too my mother and we have decided it’s a good thing that Sammy get too spend time with her as well. She has been a part of his life since birth and I know how much Sammy loves his grandma. Perhaps me and Frank shouldn’t have taken him away from her, but she just lost my dad and we thought it be great to give her time to heal instead we only harmed them both in the present. We also wanted Sammy to know his other family, so in case you wonder why am I writing to you now, I want my son to be happy and I know that his very fragile with his parents gone and he think we left him behind. I want my mom stated as his guardian until we get back to South Africa later this year. I hope and trust you would grant me this. Tell everyone else that we are thankful to helping us with Sammy. We miss our son and we can’t be there for him, but this we can do for him letting him move back into his own house with his grandma.
Yours sincerely
Jo-Anne
As Margie read the letter and hand it over to her husband, they both stare at the boy who’s never left his grandma’s hand. As much as it hurts them that their own grandson hasn’t been that close to them over the two years. Martin and Margie Carter has tried so hard giving their son’s child the proper home life any child deserves, but they just couldn’t handle his dreams he would get late at night. The fact he would just keep to himself never playing with the other kids are talking to anyone else. He would play by himself and he would walk around the yard and make things up like imaginary things. He would pretend his talking with his grandpapa because his grandma told him that his grandpapa is always with him, inside his heart that if he needs to talk to just say what is on his mind. getting Sammy to respond to anything was hard on them. They even noticed that the boy wasn’t as close to his own father as with his mother. They knew that it was his mother’s family the boy was closer too. They felt bad about it, that they never reached out to their grandson when he was born, that they never went to family gatherings when their son invited them. Why Frank even send the boy here was beyond there imagination, perhaps Frank thought it be a good time for his parents to have time with there grandson yet it wasn’t that at all. The way they see it, this boy don’t really know them or need them in his life. He has a hero for a grandpa and an amazing grandma already who loved him very much. They just wish they could have been there from the beginning of his little life.
Mrs Campbell knew that the Carter’s tried the best they could into giving Sammy a happy home, but the boy just weren’t happy with the new home he came to live in. She understood that it was best of she takes the boy back home, back to his real home in his own room and his own bed.
Sometimes in life things has a way of working out. That children grow attached to what they know, and what they know is that being safe and loved with the adults that was in their lives since birth, separation and detachedment is hard on little ones.
Sammy got his prayers answered. The prayer his been praying since he arrived at the Carters.
Grandpapa please take me home.
The end.
Annie was fast asleep in her grandma’s lap, when she was put in her bed. She woke up just before gran stepped out of her room.
“Grandma, I am glad that Sammy had a grandma just like you.” she said.
Her grandma nod and gave her a kiss on her forehead.
That night Annie slept so good that she didn’t get any nightmares.
© C Davids
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| Award From Creative Pen |
Author Note: this story I wrote a few months back, its my first try at writing a childrens story, it reminded me of the bedtime stories my gran use to tell me and my cousin when we were little. I hope to one day write an entire childrens book.
