1. The songs "Mares eat oats and does eat oats", "Jolly Old St. Nicholas" and various others.
2. How to keep myself and others awake while driving on a cousins trip in the middle of the night by counting and sorting all the cars that drove past us on the freeway.
3. To be daring enough to try new and interesting foods knowing that I have to lick my plate clean whether I like it or not; thus there aren't too many things that I wouldn't eat (that would explain my spare tire that won't go away).
4. How to compete. Whether it was wrestling in my undies on the front lawn with Annie or races to the tree and back for change or even playing defense while grandpa taught the boys football routes.
5. How to admire the fancy things in life (i.e. the insides of glamorous hotel lobbies and Relais and Chateaux all over the world, beautiful gardens, the shoe department at Saks Fifth Ave and many more fine stores) and to enjoy the simple (often less expensive) things in life (i.e. Premiere 1 motel rooms, sleeping under the stars on the side of the road somewhere in Arizona, and most importantly, FAMILY).
*NOW TELL ME FIVE THINGS YOU HAVE LEARNED FROM GRANDPA ROMNEY
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Hey, Elimy! Thanks for the jump start!
As for my five lessons from Grandpa, here goes nothing...
1. It's ok to be slow. It's even ok to be slower than girls who are half your age (even when you're six and they're three!). There's no shame in that. Really. I swear.
2. You don't always need to tell the truth. It's ok to call a restaurant "famous" when, in fact, nobody outside a five mile radius has ever heard of the place. It's also ok to say, "You've got a strong football neck, Braddy," when, really, I was a scrawny little kid with a scrawnier neck. And it's just fine if you want to ignore reality and tell the entire family (including Sara before she got sucked into the family) that "Brad Jr. was getting fresh with tons of ladies in Spain."
3. It's important to document everything. And I mean everything! How many times have YOU fallen? You should know that kind of thing.
4. Wheelchairs are cool. It's especially cool to challenge other wheelchair-enabled speedsters to a race.
5. You can talk to Grandpa about anything. In fact, he'll make it easy by asking you to tell him things you would never venture to tell you closest confidant. (Sara can tell you all about it.)
Sara wanted to add a rule of her own:
1. Parenting requires creativity and a willingness to bend societal rules, now and again. For example, while bribery is considered an unacceptable means of coersion under most circumstances, parenting is a whole different ball game. This revelation comes from recent experience. Vivi has apparently capped out her learning of wholesome things and is now focusing her energy on getting progressively naughtier. Nobody can tell me that bribery is wrong. Nobody.
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