SUMMER WITH GRANDPA AND NONI
WHEN LIFE THROWS YOU LEMONS JUST MAJE LEMONADE MY NONNA ALWAYS SAID HAVING 27 GRANDKIDS EVERY NOW AND THEN THEY CALL US TO VISIT GRANDPA AND NONI MY VETERAN HUSBAND ADORES THE KIDS WE BOTH SPOIL THEM ROTTEN MAYBE TOO MUCH FROM BUYING ROBLOX TO SHOPPING PUBLIX SAMS CLUB FINALLY THE POOL AT CYPRESS LAKES ODDLY THEIR MOM DIDN'T WARN US OF THE STRESS THEY WERE UNDER LIVING IN BELOW POVERTY NEIGHBORHOOD IN TAMPA WHERE GANGS MAKE YOUNGER KIDS BREAK INTO PARKED CARS RISKY NEIGHBORHOOD SO I THOUGHT THIS WOULD BE GOOD FOR THEM LITTLE DID I KNOW THEIR MOTHER WAS ON PROBATION SPITTING ON AN OFFICER LIVING WITH HER MOM WHO CONTINUES MAKING FALSE REPORTS TO DCF ON HER OWN DAUGHTER FOR CHRISTSAKE THE CHILDREN ARE VERY CONFUSED BEING TEASED IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD BECAUSE THIER NANA MARRIED A JAMAICAN LADY THAT LOOKS AND DRESS UP LIKE A MAN THEY WERE BEING BULLIED BECAUSE THIER GRANDMA NANA SHE JUST MARRIED A JAMAICAN LESBIAN WHATEVER I AM SIMPLY NOT ACCUSTOMED TO THIS ABOMINATION NOT TO BE JUDGEMENTAL THE BIBLE TEACHES US WHY GOD HATES THE FIRST TIME I READ THAT GOD DETESTED THEE ACT OF ABOMINATION JUST TO GET CITIZENSHIP INTO AMERICA SO THEY ARE VERY CONFUSED VERY TROUBLED THEY WERE VERY HAPPY TO VISIT WITH US GRANDPA AND I WE LIVE IN A SENIOR COMMUNITY SO WE THOUGHT THE POOL WOULD BE FUN FOR THE BOYS UNTIL THEY BEGAN THROWING GIANT STONES INTO THE POOL WHERE SENIORS WERE EXERCISING I WAS IN SHOCK AT THIER BEHAVIOR SO I SCOLDED THEM AFTER A VERY ANGRY GOLFER YELLED HEY YOU DON'T THROW ROCKS IN THE POOL IT WAS LIKE THEY WERE POSSESSED OR SOMEONE TOLD THEM TO SKIP ROCKS IN A POOL FULL OF SENIORS I REMINDED THEM SOMEONE COULD HAVE GOTTEN INJURED REALLY BAD THEY COULD BE IN A LOT OF TROUBLE GRANDPA WAS A TROOPER BOYS WILL BE BOYS TOM SAWYER AND HUCK FIN BUT IN THE REAL WORLD INJURING AN ELDERLY SENIOR IN A POOL WITH A ROCK COULD CAUSE SEVERE HATM I NEEDED THEM TO UNDERSTAND THIS GRANDPA WAS STERN TOO HE TOOK SO MUCH TIME WITH THE BOYS I GOT TO TAKE CARE OF MY INJURED POODLE AND GROOM MY OTHER TWO POODLES AFTERWARDS I RESTED WITH MY FRACTURED HIP I THOUGHT THE BOYS WERE FINE AT MY HEART DOCTOR MY CARDIOLOGIST SAID THEY WERE GOOD BOYS THEY ACTUALLY SAT THROUGH MY EEG I WAS UNABLE TO WALK SO MY HUSBAND WAITED ON ME HAND AND FOOT THE BOYS HAD THE LIVING ROOM AND MY GUEST ROOM PLENTY OF SPACE FOR THREE POODLES THEY LOVED BEING WITH GRANDPA AND NONI THEY DIDN'T WANT TO GO HOME BUT I WAS TIRED SORE LAUNDRY LAUNDRY MORE LAUNDRY I HONEST THOUGHT JHORE WAS CLIMBING IN THE WINDOW TO STEAL MY POOL TOWELS TOWELS AND BATHING SUITS AGAIN I USUALLY FOLD MY LAUNDRY AFTER DUMPING IT IN THE GUEST ROOM I JUST FELT JHORE JOHNSON PROWLING IN FACT THE STUD BROAD FROM JAMAICA IS IN FACT RELATED TO JAMAICAN JHORE JOHNSON THIS IS HOW THEY COME TO AMERICA AND INSERT THEMSELVES INTO AMERICAN FAMILIES TO CAUSE CHAOS STIR UP STRIFE CONFUSION WRATH AT ANYRATE I REALLY THOUGHT JHORE WAS MANIPULATING THIER MOM TO GET EARLY RELEASE FROM PROBATION HER SPECIALTY ABUSE OF POWER STARTED WHEN MY SON WAS ONLY 7 WATCHING HER GUNMAN OPEN FIRE TOWARDS OUR TOWNHOME I LOVE MY GRANDCHILDREN BUT I AM SO BLESSED I DON'T HAVE TO RAISE THEM IN A SENIOR COMMUNITY WHEN LIFE THROW YOU LEMONS JUST MAKE LEMONADE
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