Inspired by OLWG#421 prompt- Now I have a new goal

Last Halloween, I was out visiting my Granddaughter for the holiday.

On my trips to see her, I take her with me to cemeteries around Fox Lake so that I can stock up on Cemetery Pictures for my blog- when she was a toddler she thought that monsters lived in the cemetery.

I explained to her that monsters don’t live in cemeteries ( I bit my tongue to keep from saying they live under her bed and in her basement too) but that people who have died do.

” Are they sleeping?” she asked me once.

No, I told her. They are dead.

” Oh. ” she said. ” But they’re just people, right?”

” Absolutely” I assured her.

Last year we went to the cemetery where members of Jemma’s   maternal side of the family have been laid to rest.

She had asked my son, before I got there to show her where a specific grave was and she was eager to share it with me on  our outing.

“Lola ” ( Filipino kids call their Grandmothers “Lola” ) she said when we got to a sunny grave sight at the fence line, ” Meet my Great Grandparents ”

She looked up at me expectantly, she was wearing her Halloween dress, her favorite jacket and her hair was loose. She was relaxed because Cemetery Exploration is our thing. But it was that look that captured my attention- she looked like she knew for sure with every fiber in her body that I would know what to say, how to act.

I clicked a picture of her without really looking at the shot as I took it because I was focused on the graves.

” Hello Myra and John. It’s very, very nice to meet you. I’m Anita, I’m Jemma’s Grandma. I hope you have a Happy Halloween.”

Jemma was beaming.

Apparently I was being tested and I had passed with flying colors.

” Come on Lola, I can show you more people!”

And she did.