The EYES have it!: Day 98 ~ Too Cool for School

Day 98 ~ Too Cool for School

Apr 8, 2014

My first: I introduced my 2-year-old grandson Andy to his first day of college.

Going to the wrong campus for a class a couple of Saturdays ago was not pretty, so I was bound and determined to know where I was supposed to be for the class I was taking this coming Saturday. I had my grandson Andy with me for the day, so it’s never too early for him to “start college”, right?

That morning I picked up three of my grandkids from their home and dropped two of them off at their respective schools. Abbey is in kindergarten at St. James and Isaac is a sophomore at Belleville West High School. But Andy is too cool for school and had to stick with Grandma.

With just Andy and me in the car, we made our way to SWIC (Southwestern Illinois College) to locate classroom #1380, the place where my “Planning Retirement” 2-hour course would be held on Saturday. We found the room right off the bat; now it was time to explore. The stairs were the most enticing. Thus, that is why they call it “higher education”…don’t you know! I think we would still be there if it weren’t for my promises to go outside, take a walk and play with his lawnmower.

When we finally exited the building, we found some “big boy” baseball players that we watched for a while and, of course, the bleachers could not go unexplored. Andy was also in charge of mowing the campus grounds. Our morning consisted almost entirely of Andy’s finding out what college is all about. My eyes were learning to see and explore all over again. Observing Andy search, examine, and experience the simple things was like making new footprints in freshly ebbed sand. It’s all been done before and it will be done again…but there is nothing like the first time.