Kindness

Joe and I had been thinking that we wanted to get a little kitchen for Nate as a combination Christmas and birthday present.  We had marvelous memories of a little wooden kitchen that our kids had, and were looking for something like that.  We found a couple of wooden kitchens but they were a bit pricey.  We had about decided to go ahead anyway, rather than get a plastic kitchen.

A new-since-spring friend from school teaches in the early childhood division, and a week or so ago she was visiting my office and I spoke of our interest in kitchens, wooden vs. plastic.  And she brightened up and said that she had a wooden kitchen that her son had outgrown and really we would be doing her a favor to take it!

We picked it up today and, by golly, it is the cutest kitchen ever.

This morning while we were figuring out the pick-up logistics, Carol mentioned that she also had a rocking horse that was looking for a new home stable and would we like that, as well?

Of course we would.  Our other young grandson, Eli, is a bundle of unspent energy.  It would be just the thing for him.  When we went to Carol and Ana's for the pick-up, we were dazzled by the pristine condition of both the kitchen and the horse, and I, in particular, thought the latter had a bit of a Swedish look about it.

It is just a matter of days until both boys are here.  I predict that their older cousins will join Nate at the stove and Eli will put a few dozen miles on the horse.  What a lovely and generous thing for Carol to do!