I’m awakened at 6am with a text that says, ‘Hey, when you
get up call me”. HUM…well I’m up now. I close my eyes and think, I have another
30 minutes before I get up. Second text, 6:10am. “I need to be at doctor’s office at 8am, going
to try and get girls ready for 100th day of school dressing up”.
Even though I knew my son-in-law had to be at work early
this week, I’m still thinking, “ok”. Third text, “baby is sick and I’m worried”. Well, forget that you think I might overreact,
why didn’t you just say that to start with?
I Jump in shower and rush to the house, arrive at 7am greeted
by the girls with baby powder in their perfectly secured hair buns, to make
their hair look gray and dressed like two little old ladies for the 100th
day of school. The baby is playing on the floor and smiles as I walk in. I can’t do anything but smile.
However, I am also thinking what am I missing? Within less than 24 hours, our daughter and
son-in-law “The Millennials” were stating their aggravation by the last-minute
notification from the school desiring the girls to celebrate the 100th
day of school by dressing up. “They need to give people more notice”!
This is also the same “Millennials” that left our house at 7pm
for their family bicycle ride, only after one of the girls rushed in the house
in dramatic fashion declaring they “needed a bicycle pump fast for their tires”.
The same “Millennials” that by 8pm had made calls and obtained the girls
eye-glasses with the lenses out and secured two walking canes for their attire.
Now 7am, after being up with the baby during the night, and texting me, was
standing there in her bathrobe just chilling.
Now truly my only contribution other than being woke up was, when asked to give her ideas to dress the girls up, to which my reply was “OH, they need some knee-high panty hose”. With that both girl simultaneously stated “what are pan-tee hose”?
My point...Go on dreaming you know what this generation
wants or thinks and then let me sell you some stock in Panty Hose!
